In the Book of Genesis, God blesses the prophet Abraham with a son named Isaac in his old age. Subsequently, God asks Abraham to execute Isaac. Abraham binds his own son in preparation for a human ...

I retired from my secular career a year ago this month, and last fall — with all the other kids — I went back to school. In my case, I took two semesters of Biblical Hebrew, the language of the Old ...

Depending on where you start the clock, the founding of the Jewish nation was partially born of an act of extreme cruelty. When Sarah welcomed Isaac, after decades of trying for a child, she persuaded ...