Of Jesus’ 12 disciples, Saint Peter is one of the most important. In the Book of Matthew, Jesus declares that Peter is the “rock” on which “I will build my church,” and Catholic tradition considers ...
The Torah reading this Shabbat, like a significant subset of Shabbatot throughout the year, contains two different facets. The first is the reading that is next in line within the ...
"Vision of Zacharias in the Temple" had been removed from the Dutch painter's oeuvre in the 1960s. But when the owners brought it to the Rijksmuseum, scholars decided to conduct a close analysis ...
With the biblical tale read on the holiday of Purim twice - once in the evening, once the next morning - it’s occasion to remember a pair of heroic American Mordecais, one by that first name and one ...
As we finished Parashat Zachor — the command to both remember and eradicate our biblical arch nemesis Amalek — the cantor ...
The Netflix miniseries Black Earth Rising, starring Michaela Coel and John Goodman, explores the 1994 Rwandan genocide from a ...