We live in a time of polarisation and conflict. The roots of many universal phenomena are found in the stories of the book of Genesis. The reading this week investigates the roots of social conflict. T...
Twelve pre-Barmitzvah boys were spending their early Wednesday evenings discussing Bible stories with me. We had reached the Akedah. They had plenty of great questions: Q1: Why did God want to test Abraham?&nbs...
Fifty years ago, the Israeli novelist Hanoch Bartov published a novel whose title has always intrigued me: Whose Little Boy Are You? That question comes to mind as we read the story of the birth of Isaac (Genesis 21). A careful ...
