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Culture King David’s story gets the ‘Game of Thrones’ treatment
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Culture Man almost swallowed by whale is a lot chiller about it than Jonah was
A humpback whale briefly scooped a kayaker in Chile into its mouth
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Yiddish World Blog ties weekly Torah portion with works of Yiddish writers
For last week's portion, the blog matches the story of Jacob's daughter Dina with a poem about her by the poet Itsik Manger.
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Culture The Binding of Isaac, the pardoning of Hunter Biden
Like Abraham, the biblical patriarch, the president was torn between faith (in the system) and family
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Opinion As a Jewish biblical scholar in Houston, I’m enraged that Texas is adopting this biblically illiterate new curriculum
The Bluebonnet program that the Texas Board of Education approved is wrong on so many levels
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