In 1770, amid the stirrings of what would become the American Revolution, a Jewish Pennsylvanian named Barnard Gratz wrote a letter to a friend. In it, he shared his unfiltered opinion of George ...

‘A Promised Land’ Review: Jewish Roots of the Tree of Liberty. During the Revolutionary era, Jews sought and subsequently celebrated freedom in America—and worked to expand its blessings. By .

Like Moses, these Jews might glimpse the Promised Land, but they could not enter it. Some hurled sticks, cans, jars of preserves as the British moved them to barbed-wire pens aboard British ...

The concept of the Promised Land, a divine covenant bestowed upon the Jewish people, has been a cornerstone of Abrahamic faiths, intricately woven into the religious and historical narratives of ...

Activists with Jewish Voice for Peace, gather to protest the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and chain themselves to the fence outside the White House, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

On this biblical view, holding land is correlated with the Israelites’ obedience to the laws. To give a pertinent example – Leviticus 19:33-34 : “When a foreigner lives among you in your ...