Thanks for all the excellent e-mails about the Song of Songs. Several of you argued that the maiden’s “navel” is not her navel, if you get my (southward) drift. My brief research didn’t settle the ...

Everyone loves a "love story." Lately we see it with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce making a splash on social media outlets such as Facebook and TikTok and many other ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. I’m afraid there’s no way to write this column without sounding like a nerd of the ...

The Book of Ruth, universally honored as “one of the most charming short stories in Hebrew literature,” and standing in contrast to the stories of war and military violence in Judges and Samuel, ...

NEW YORK — Famine and flight, emigration and immigration, the idea of being a stranger in a strange land — the story of Ruth is as much a biblical story as it is a story for today. It’s also the ...

I love the story of Ruth in the Old Testament book that bears her name. Naomi and her husband and two sons were from Bethlehem. Because of a famine, they relocated to Moab, a neighboring country where ...

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Shavuot, at first a biblical harvest festival, evolved or was shifted by rabbinical times to a holiday celebrating the giving of the Torah, as approximately befits biblical dating. As such, ...

The new Ruth & Boaz movie on Netflix—which began streaming on Netflix today—will no doubt sound familiar to anyone who knows their Bible. The movie—which is produced by Tyler Perry and DeVon Franklin, ...