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Ben Franklin's proposed design for the Great Seal of the United States included Moses parting the Red Sea. (Public domain)
April 16, 2017, 12:06 pm
When Moses almost parted the Red Sea on the Great Seal of the United States
New book contends Hebrew prophets influenced the Puritans who established America -- and the patriots who led it to independence
By Rich Tenorio
A bronze statue of the Satanic icon Baphomet, currently residing in a shed outside The Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts (Courtesy)
October 26, 2016, 4:36 pm
In haunted Salem, a Jewish church founder preaches the art of ‘Satanic’ social change
At a former funeral home in a town inextricably linked to witchcraft, secular Jew Malcolm Jarry opens a new heaquarters for his Satanic Temple, a controversial movement with up to 50,000 members worldwide
By Matt Lebovic
Actors Anne Gottlieb and Jeremiah Kissel starred in an October 2015 production of Arthur Miller’s ‘Broken Glass,’ produced by Boston’s New Repertory Theatre. The production was staged in honor of the 100th anniversary of Miller’s birth on October 17, 1915. (Andrew Brilliant/NRT)
October 20, 2015, 3:17 pm
For Arthur Miller’s 100th: To Jew or not to Jew?
As theaters around the world commemorate the playwright's 100th with performances of Miller classics, a look at the scribe’s conflicted views on Jews, Judaism and anti-Semitism
By Matt Lebovic
Bette Midler in the 1993 film 'Hocus Pocus,' a comedic twist on the Salem witch trials of 1692 (photo courtesy: Walt Disney Pictures)
October 31, 2014, 4:26 pm
More than ‘Hocus Pocus’ to Salem’s Jewish past
Biblical history and Mosaic Law permeated the lives -- and deaths -- of the Massachusetts Bay community which would not 'suffer a witch to live'
By Matt Lebovic
August 21, 2012, 3:12 pm
Moby what?! Puritan hypocrisy laid bare
It’s ridiculous that a junior Congressman from Kansas should be raked over the coals for simply wanting to cool his Republican tuchus in the Christ-endorsed waters of the Sea of Galilee
By Anthony Grant
June 26, 2012, 6:31 pm
Lost in translation
We need Hebrew to engage with our past, to connect to our fellow Jews in the present, and to preserve the future of our people
By Seffi Kogen
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