What defines Judaism and the Jewish people? Ethnicity/Race? Or Religious Culture and Practice? The Book of Ruth, that we read in a couple of days on Shavuot, provides a complex answer. It’s a ...

The romantic drama film Ruth & Boaz, directed by Alanna Brown, is a modern portrayal of a biblical story. Produced by Tyler Perry and DeVon Franklin, the film's plot centres on Ruth (Serayah McNeil), ...

*Producers Tyler Perry and DeVon Franklin have teamed up for the Netflix debut of Ruth and Boaz starring Serayah and Tyler Lepley. Based on the biblical book where Ruth is a Moabite widow who chooses ...

First-time visitors to Israel are always impressed with tels, the Hebrew word for the tall mounds of earth dotting so much of the countryside. As archaeologists dig through the tels' many layers, the ...

Taylor, who has dramatized the stories of other biblical women (Martha; Mary Magdalene; and Claudia, Wife of Pontius Pilate), fleshes out the lives of Ruth and her second husband Boaz, the ...

Shavuot, at first a biblical harvest festival, evolved or was shifted by rabbinical times to a holiday celebrating the giving of the Torah, as approximately befits biblical dating. As such, ...

This enlightening entry in Yale’s Jewish Lives Series by Pardes (The Song of Songs), a professor of comparative literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, dissects the biblical Ruth. Pardes ...