Ellen Frankel, author of the “JPS Illustrated Children’s Bible,” explains her decision to include one of the Torah’s most challenging stories. PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — When I was growing up, no one told ...

“I will bless you abundantly and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore.” The story of Abraham and Isaac is one of the most fascinating, and troubling ...

Continuing this eight-part series on men in the Bible, the fourth in the series is Isaac. As a practicing, committed Catholic for over fifteen years, I have learned a lot about Abraham and about Jacob ...

The Binding of Isaac is an incredibly strange game. Loosely based on the Bible story, The Binding of Isaac follows a little boy who escapes into a horrible fantasy world to escape being murdered by ...

This piece was originally delivered as a sermon titled “The Cries of Isaac and Ishmael” at Central Synagogue on the first day of Rosh Hashanah in 2025. I have been a rabbi for 25 years, 20 of them at ...

It’s hard to tell a story about Jesus Christ that actually follows The Bible and fits into a single movie without making it feel like a greatest hits compilation. Oh look, here’s the part where Jesus ...