To understand Abraham properly ... And it is that covenant that remains the cornerstone of Jewish identity as well as the foundation into which we Gentiles, the wild olive branch, has been ...

This covenant establishes what we might call ... Hear Shaye Cohen comment on the importance of the Babylonian Exile to the Jewish religion. Abraham is the great forefather of Judaism, but was ...

Consider their inheritance: their great-grandfather Abraham disowned his son Ishmael ... For them, the Jewish covenant wasn’t rooted in family — it was about committing to God’s mission.

US forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany with its remaining 21,000 inmates. A total of 56,545 men, ...

The term covenant refers to a promise or agreement which is made between two people or groups of people. Judasim teaches that covenants were made between God and Noah, Abraham and Moses.

Abraham directed Eliezer to hold the site of his circumcision, a physical manifestation of his covenant with God ... (“taking hold of an object”). In Jewish tradition, a person taking an ...