Where was the patriarch’s pushback? And where’s ours?

For Tu B’Shevat, the 13 greatest trees in Jewish history, from the palm groves of Ein Gedi to a humongous, ancient sycamore in Netanya—and the burning bush

When both a father and his offspring are leaders, what’s the most ideal dynamic between them?

Jury declines to try NYPD officer in chokehold death of unarmed black man

Spielberg’s WWII epic alludes to Abraham Lincoln and Abraham the patriarch

They lie. They cheat. The treat their kids terribly. This Father’s Day, be thankful your own dad is such a mensch.

Talmudic rabbis debate the paradoxical belief in Jewish chosenness despite the evidence of Jewish powerlessness

A Talmudic problem: Abraham lived before the law was given, so how can his actions be used to interpret the law?

Inheriting Abraham, by Jon Levenson, expertly dismantles the idea of the patriarch as the father of three religions

Yoram Hazony’s new book bases Judaism on a naturalistic reading of the Bible, but it’s a stretch

What Abraham’s servant—the hero of this week’s parasha—and modern science can teach us about finding love

An anti-Arab attack in East Jerusalem, and this week’s parasha about Abraham in Sodom

Stories of Abraham, the original outsider, and a young Israeli activist who followed his lead

Reflections on a vexed relationship

Seventy years ago, a contentious novel scrutinized Judaism through the eyes of a young boy