Like many Jewish Louisianans, I followed with interest the so-called “Ten Commandments” bill which Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law this week. It requires public schools, including ...

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I’ll start my thought on Shav’uot with a bit of “Adult Education” and then to a thought that addresses the inner life. “Decalogue” in Exodus 34:28 came into English as “ten verses” in the Tyndale ...

A granite monument of the Ten Commandments on Texas State Capitol grounds in Austin, Texas. (Photo via Library of Congress. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg via JTA>org.) Jackie Hajdenberg Three Jewish ...

I have three children in the Houston Independent School District. If this law is allowed to go into effect, my kids would be subjected to these scriptural displays for more than 1,200 hours over the ...

The Decalogue in its original Hebrew form was definitely the work of one historic personage, of Moses the Jewish Law Giver, all theories of the German Bible critics to the contrary notwithstanding, ...

Tradition says it was the moment Jews became a chosen “holy nation,” not just by ancestry, belief or geography, but by covenant. Many faiths, including Christians, Muslims and Hindus, claim a sacred ...

(JTA) — Three Jewish families are among a group of nine Louisiana families with children in public schools who have filed a suit in federal court challenging a new state law that requires the Ten ...