More than 20 years ago, I wrote my doctoral dissertation on Jewish responses to Darwinism. What I discovered is how little Judaism needed to adjust to accommodate biological evolution. Given the ...

Why does the Torah begin with the Genesis story? If it is a book of Law, ask the rabbis, why not start with the first commandment? On an individual level, perhaps it teaches us that just as God first ...

Based on the Torah Portion Parashat Bereshit (Genesis 1:1-6:8) The story of creation begins again this week in synagogues around the world. The Jewish people make a global reset and roll-back our ...

Every summer, Brandeis University becomes a vibrant hub for pluralistic Jewish learning through Genesis, a three-week precollege program that brings together high school students from across the globe ...

One of the most fundamental questions about the Torah turns out to be one of the hardest to answer. What, from G-d’s calling to Abraham in Genesis 12 to the death of Joseph in Genesis 50, is the basic ...

As Jews we learn to live with the contradictions that sometimes haunt us. (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Everyone has at least a few creation stories: how they were born, how they came to the career ...

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The Genesis Prize Foundation announced plans to honor the late prominent scholar, theologian, philosopher and former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom Lord Jonathan Sacks. In 2020, the foundation for ...

The public can vote until Oct. 26 for one of seven prize finalists: Sacha Baron Cohen, Barbra Streisand, Elena Kagan, Gal Gadot, Jonathan Sacks, Marc Benioff or Steven Spielberg. Doron Almog, a former ...

“It’s God as self-portrait,” the artist Yona Verwer told me as she explained Genesis, from Something to Nothing, an evocative but admittedly cryptic piece that she describes as “a ruptured metallic ...

The prestigious Genesis Prize – also known as the “Jewish Nobel Prize” – will be awarded this year to those working to defend Ukraine’s independence while alleviating the suffering of the people there ...

HAVANA, Cuba, May 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Stan Polovets, Co-founder and Chairman of The Genesis Prize Foundation, visited Havana this week to meet with Hella Askenazi, Vice President of the Cuban ...