Balaam and the Angel are set to perform at The Craufurd Arms. The alternative rock band will be playing in Milton Keynes on October 9 as part of their "Forces of Evil" tour. The tour began last year, ...

What happens when those entrusted to see clearly fail to see at all? When the people we look to for direction misread the moment completely? This week’s Torah portion, Parashat Balak, tells the story ...

Every year the story of Balaam and his talking donkey recalls for me one of my childhood’s favorite TV sit-coms “Mr. Ed” featuring that friendly talking Palomino horse in the barn. More seriously, the ...

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This week’s portion, on the prophet Balaam and the king of Moab, Balak, is a sort of microcosm of the Torah in that it encapsulates so many of its greatest modes and themes. Balaam’s prophetic ...

Parashat Balak that we read this week tells how, after witnessing the overwhelming victory of the people of Israel over the Amorites, Balak, the king of Moab, was afraid that he and his people would ...

The concept of repentance is one of Judaism’s greatest contributions to religious thought. The concomitant idea, however, that the Eternal may experience a change of heart detrimental to the entire ...

I first heard this Bible story a great many years ago when I was at Oxford. One of the young chaps was up at the lectern reading the lesson from the Hebrew scriptures when he caught an incurable case ...

At the conclusion of the Torah, which is also the conclusion of Moses’ physical existence on earth, the text records: “Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the Lord knew ...