I recently re-read the story many call “Jonah and the whale” and I could not help but compare Jonah and Nineveh with the Philippines. Filipinos today are much like Jonah when it comes to calling out ...

(RNS) — God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza. (RNS) — The Book of Jonah is one of my favorite books in the Bible. Because of what is ...

There have been two solar eclipses: The first occurred on August 21st, 2017, and the second one will occur on April 8th, 2024. It appears that these two eclipses mark a giant "X marks the spot" on ...

This is Flemish artist Jan Brueghel the Elder’s depiction of the giant fish coughing Jonah onshore to let him complete the mission God had given him. Brueghel lived from 1568-1625. (Courtesy Photo) ...

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.

Find today’s readings here. While still more people gathered in the crowd, Jesus said to them, “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of ...

(RNS) — The Book of Jonah is one of my favorite books in the Bible. Because of what is happening in the Middle East right now, the Book of Jonah is especially relevant to us today. Jonah is not a ...

The principal character in this small prophecy is Jonah, son of Amittai. We read of him in 2 Kings 14:25, in which the additional information is given that he was from Gath-hepher, in the territory of ...

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 ...

Judaism reminds me of my smallness and powerlessness — and not to give in to despair, weakness or insecurities, writes Mayim Bialik. (JTA) — Yom Kippur. The Day of Atonement. After a year unlike any ...