JERUSALEM (JTA) – Fifty years since the Six-Day War, 100 years since the Balfour Declaration, 150 years since Mark Twain first visited Palestine. This has been a year of big Israel-related ...

Here is a lovely parable—all the more lovely considering that it comes from the chief rabbi of Great Britain’s Orthodox Jews. A young man, having troubled over the question, asks his father: Why does ...

MINNETONKA, Minn. Zap! Pow! Amen!Whether its fanciful tales of jewel-colored angels battling demons for a mans soul or retellings of familiar stories from the Bible, Christian comic books are taking ...

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