(JTA) — If one were to imagine what the prophet Jonah saw on his way down into the gullet of the whale, it might be something like this: He slides feet first into its mouth on two inches of warm slime ...

And the prolific master storyteller Jane Yolen offers up a fun-to-read-aloud story that young kids no doubt will ask for again and again. BOSTON (JTA) — Challah-eating Australian kangaroos, an ...

Darth Vader is Luke’s father. Bruce Willis is a ghost. In a narrative twist millennia before those cinematic classics, the rabbis offered their own: The King of Nineveh is actually Pharaoh of Egypt.

In the Jewish calendar, the holiest day of the year is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement—Oct. 2 this year. It is a fast day. Observant Jews eat and drink nothing between twilight on the eve of Yom ...

The commonplace “a prophet without honor in his own country” suggests he is overlooked. In fact, however, he is not overlooked but derided or reviled -- the strength of the populace’s reactions is ...