Why do we read the Book of Jonah on Yom Kippur? Commentators — predictably — differ. But I believe one crucial reason is because of the book’s warning against dehumanizing others in the course of ...

(RNS) — Let us pray for the success of President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan for Gaza, which has now been agreed to by Israel and Hamas. But let us also take a note of caution from the Book of Jonah ...

Often unnoticed as the tale of Jonah being swallowed by a whale is read in synagogue on Yom Kippur is a much smaller animal. Jonah, “Yonah” in Hebrew, means a dove. As the two Israeli scholars Menahem ...