It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

The Ten Commandments recall the Exodus. You are part of an extended family, the Israelites. It began with Abraham, from ...

The custom of including the Ten Commandments as part of the Shema was once widespread, but from a certain point in time it was systematically opposed by the Sages. Why did they object to it?

A bill that would have required the Ten Commandments to be posted in all North Dakota public schools was voted down on the House floor on Wednesday.

Michelangelo’s Moses has more in common with C.S. Lewis’s Mr. Tumnus than the casual viewer might expect—namely, a couple of ...

How often do we hear someone utter to themselves or casually remark, “I swear it’s true” – without taking the time to verify ...

Even though Sunday is the first day of the week, its inclusion in the weekend implies that it lives in Saturday’s shadow.

A 1,500-year-old tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments is set to go up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York this December. The stone artifact is written in paleo-Hebrew, and was discovered ...

The Decalogue, which most people mistakenly call “The Ten Commandments,” is contained in the fifth Exodus biblical portion, Yitro, which Moses repeats with many changes in the fifth chapter of ...

North Dakota lawmakers voted down a bill yesterday that would have required the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all ...

Perhaps Yitro was not just looking for a God to believe in but a nation to be part of. In the splitting of the sea and the war of Amalek, Jethro found a special destiny embedded in Jewish peoplehood, ...