According to sources, Nachshon ben Aminadav, the leader of the tribe of Yehuda, jumped into the water in a literal leap of ...

It is clear from this verse that the foreign nations that remained within Israel served a precise purpose for the Jewish ...

Passover, the "holiday of freedom", is also the "holiday of Spring" in the Torah - and is "the Spring of the entire world" in the words of Rav Avraham Yitschak HaCohen Hook, Israel's first chief rabbi ...

The Ada High School boys track team turned in a dominant performance Friday during their own Dorsey Reirdon Relays. The Cougars racked up 173.5 team points to easily win the championship. Durant was ...

Peter Beinart takes two stories of disputes between Jews, and uses these to elaborate on this and look toward a resolution of ...

Its central concern is to prepare the Israelites to smash the idols of false worship that pollute the land of Canaan ... this promise later on. When Joshua encounters the angel of the Lord ...

To recap the story: Within a year of the exodus from Egypt, the Israelites approached the land of Canaan – the Promised Land.

The Bible contains some explicit genocidal narratives, and over time, some religious Zionists have wielded these stories to advocate for the destruction of the Palestinians.

It seems plausible that the beginning of the settlement of the children of Israel in the eastern Nile Delta—dated to ...

Genesis gets us from the Fertile Crescent to the shores of the Mediterranean, through Canaan and on into Egypt ... History books in the Writings, like Joshua, Judges and Ruth, get us across ...

Luvenia Jackson Hobbs, 87, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, peacefully passed away on March 29, 2025, at a local healthcare ...

His family tree included a number of the first settlers in New England, including some in the towns of Kittery, Hampton, Newbury, Nantucket, Deerfield, Wethersfield, Norwalk, New Canaan and New ...