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Director Natalie Portman attends a photocall for 'A Tale Of Love And Darkness' during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2015. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images, via JTA)
April 20, 2018, 2:28 am
Natalie Portman refuses to visit Israel to accept prize, citing ‘recent events’
Genesis Prize cancels 'Jewish Nobel' award ceremony after agent for Jerusalem-born actress says she 'does not feel comfortable participating in any public events in Israel'
By JTA and TOI staff
A fragile fragment of an enigmatic Dead Sea Scroll is on public display at the Israel Museum for the first time since its discovery 70 years ago, in Jerusalem, March. 20, 2018. (AP/Oded Balilty)
March 20, 2018, 9:32 pm
Enigmatic Dead Sea Scroll fragment makes rare show in Jerusalem
Israel Museum exhibits sole copy of ancient Jewish text elaborating on stories from the first book of Bible, dating back to first century BCE
By Ilan Ben Zion
'The Rape of Dinah,' by Giuliano Bugiardini, circa 1554. (Wikimedia Commons)
November 24, 2017, 10:47 pm
How many children of Israel were trans?
The LGBTQ community has been part of the Torah's society since the very beginning
By Yoseif Bloch
Bible scholar Tzemah Yoreh questions the common telling of the binding of Isaac -- the version that inspired Caravaggio -- in which an angel stops Abraham moments before he sacrifices his son. (Photo credit: From http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/isaac.jpgg/via Wikipedia)
November 3, 2017, 3:10 pm
How Judaism broke down the family
The biblical Binding of Isaac is a painful episode in the drama of human separation and individuation
By Jonathan Sacks
Burial of individual analyzed in the Canaanite study, from about 1600 BC. (Dr. Claude Doumet-Serhal/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
July 28, 2017, 4:30 am
The Canaanites weren’t annihilated, they just ‘moved’ to Lebanon
A UK-based study of ancient genomes finds Canaanites form over 90% of modern Lebanese ancestry, a trait they share with ancient Israelites
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The fall of Adam and Eve as depicted in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo (Wikipedia / Public Domain)
April 15, 2017, 2:49 am
On journey to Eden, Bruce Feiler discovers the Creation of Man is really an egalitarian tale
Investigating how the biblical story was 'weaponized' to subjugate women, bestselling author travels to Iraq, the Vatican... and through history
By Rich Tenorio
December 2, 2016, 2:32 pm
The abuse of Halacha
Genesis' story of the human condition establishes ethics and religious values as both safeguard and cornerstone of law
By Nathan Lopes Cardozo
The Ark Encounter is seen July 5, 2016 in Williamstown, Kentucky. The Ark Encounter is a theme park centered around a 510 foot long reproduction of Noah's Ark. Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images/AFP
July 7, 2016, 9:20 am
Baby dinos and all, Noah’s ark readies for opening in Kentucky
Christian theme park aimed at teaching biblical story riles opponents who say the 510-foot-long attraction will be detrimental to science education
By DYLAN LOVAN
Ken Ham, the CEO of Answers in Genesis, announcing the opening date of the Ark Encounter in Kentucky on November 13, 2015 (screen capture: YouTube)
November 13, 2015, 11:33 pm
Coming soon to Kentucky: Noah’s Ark theme park
CEO of the company building the 'Ark Encounter' says it will be 'one of the biggest Christian attractions in the world'
By TOI staff
Peter Gabriel performing at the 2011 Skoll Awards. (photo credit: CC BY-Araujojoan96, Wikipedia)
November 10, 2014, 8:13 pm
Peter Gabriel pro-Gaza, not anti-Israel
Genesis front man says he is not anti-Semitic, but is against oppression and occupation
By TOI staff
Artist's rendition of the Big Bang (Photo credit: NASA)
March 19, 2014, 3:11 am
New Big Bang evidence supports Biblical creation, says Orthodox physicist
Counters nonreligious professor: The Genesis account of the formation of the heavens and the earth has nothing to do with science
By David Shamah
Scientists, from left, Clem Pryke, Jamie Bock, Chao-Lin Kuo and John Kovac smile during a news conference at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, March 17, 2014, regarding their new findings on the early expansion of the universe. Scientists say that the universe was born almost 14 billion years ago, exploding into existence in an event called the Big Bang. Now these researchers say they’ve spotted evidence that a split-second later, the expansion of the cosmos got a powerful-jump start. Experts called the discovery a major advance if confirmed. (photo credit: AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
March 18, 2014, 1:34 am
Scientists hail a first glimpse of ‘the beginning of time’
Split-second after Big Bang, 14 billion years ago, new evidence points to an astonishing rapid growth spurt at the start of the universe
By Malcolm Ritter
Attendees at the Venice Biennale international art festival in 2007 (photo credit: CC BY 3.0, by Renatomarto, Wikimedia Commons)
May 16, 2013, 7:06 pm
Vatican to present Torah-themed art exhibit
'Creation, Un-Creation, Re-Creation,' based on Genesis 1-11, will be displayed at Venice Biennale international art festival
Johan Huibers poses with a stuffed tiger in front of the full scale replica of Noah’s Ark in Dordrecht, Netherlands, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. (Peter Dejong/AP)
December 11, 2012, 2:47 am
Noah’s Ark opens in Netherlands
Dutchman launches life-sized replica of biblical vessel
By Toby Sterling
November 30, 2012, 2:19 pm
Parsha Pick: VaYishlach
Jacob and Esau face off
By Shawn Ruby
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