Something a little different from me this week! I was once asked to write the story of Jonah in rhyme which was published in a book of stories for children and given to every primary school library in ...

Often unnoticed as the tale of Jonah being swallowed by a whale is read in synagogue on Yom Kippur is a much smaller animal. Jonah, “Yonah” in Hebrew, means a dove. As the two Israeli scholars Menahem ...

The prophet’s lesson is also ours: We must recover compassion for neighbor and enemy alike, or our words will be hollow. Political discourse today is increasingly marked more by bitter conflict than ...