Her new book, 'The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak,' examines their faithful and dysfunctional relationships.

In the last two weeks, I have seen the work of numerous Esthers carrying on her legacy.

Every year I take a close look at sacred texts, primarily Jewish ones (I am a rabbi, after all) to divine the Super Bowl winner.

Thích Nhất Hạnh, the Zen monk and long-time Vietnamese political exile who was a prominent global Buddhist spiritual leader renowned for his advocacy of individual responsibility for such worldly concerns as the environment and nonviolence, has died.

The very people who have been subject to the worst of the United States have embodied its best.

January 2021 brought the inauguration of a new president, but the violent insurrection at the Capitol laid bare the profound differences in expectations of government.