The Shema is central to Judaism. Although a divine command and not a prayer, it is the main reading in the morning and evening services, Shacharit and Maariv.  It is one of many biblical sections that ...

The word Hatikvah means “The Hope.” It is the first stanza of a poem written by Naphtali Herz Imber (1856-1909), a Jewish Hebrew-language poet from Złoczów, now called Zolochiv, Ukraine, then part of ...

A number of songs sound similar to 'Hatikvah' — including one in a drama film from China – that are unrelated to Israel.

El Atigh Abba's Brooklyn cafe is an in-between place influenced by its owner's favorite cafe in his native Mauritania.

“Wow” — shevach in Hebrew, or praiseworthiness — is about God’s awesomeness. Rabbi Spodek said he spends a minute or two pondering the miracle that is creation. That there is a (narrowing) climate in ...

But did David rape Bathsheba? Scripture does not mince words when dealing with sin, including the terrible act of rape. But the Bible says David sent messengers who “took” her. This word (Strong’s ...

Bathsheba means daughter of Sheba ... not thou that Egyptian’, mistaking him for an Egyptian because he was a dark-skinned Hebrew and, therefore, likely Nubian/Ethiopian. Paul describes his own life ...

Rembrandt van Rijn’s magisterial painting in the Louvre of “Bathsheba at Her Bath” (1654) is the last of the Dutch painter’s female nudes and his most moving depiction of the seductive ...

The Hebrew word for a reigning queen was "malkah", being the ... Queen consorts were women married to the king, or Emperor or Pharaoh. Bathsheba was married to King David (2 Samuel 11 and 12; 1 Kings ...

presents perhaps the most dramatic and bloody story in the Hebrew scriptures. It begins with King David, sitting in his palace in Jerusalem, lazily gazing at a woman bathing in a nearby house. David ...