Late this Saturday afternoon on Yom Kippur, many Jews will be sitting in synagogue listening to the chanting of the Book of Jonah. We will be tired, hungry, thirsty, and perhaps even irritable. At ...

The Book of Jonah is one of my favorite books in the Bible. Because of what is happening in the Middle East right now, the Book of Jonah is especially relevant to us today. Jonah is not a children's ...

Darth Vader is Luke’s father. Bruce Willis is a ghost. In a narrative twist millennia before those cinematic classics, the rabbis offered their own: The King of Nineveh is actually Pharaoh of Egypt.

(JTA) — Yom Kippur. The Day of Atonement. After a year unlike any we could have anticipated, I have been waiting for this day, not for atonement so much as a reset. Jewish tradition teaches us that ...

(JTA) — If one were to imagine what the prophet Jonah saw on his way down into the gullet of the whale, it might be something like this: He slides feet first into its mouth on two inches of warm slime ...

The Book of Jonah says in Chapter 2: Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish, saying, ‘I called to the LORD, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol ...

When novelists plan on a modern-day reworking of a biblical episode, they frequently plunder the parables or cherry-pick from Genesis and Revelation. The book of choice in terms of literary quality, ...

(RNS) — God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza. (RNS) — The Book of Jonah is one of my favorite books in the Bible. Because of what is ...