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Pamela Greenberg turned to the Book of Psalms during a dark time in her life. To help combat depression she flipped through the ancient songs in Hebrew, taking time to translate the ones that spoke ...

A Koine Greek inscription paraphrasing Psalms 86 was discovered by Hebrew University archaeologists at the site of Hyrcania Fortress in the Judean Desert. Adorned with a cross, the Byzantine-era ...

Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein’s new composition, The Chichester Psalms, was sung in Hebrew in the Chichester Cathedral yesterday. The new work, which had been commissioned by the Dean of ...

When he’s out of town and worships in an unfamiliar synagogue, Rabbi Capers C. Funnye Jr. tends to draw stares. An African-American Jew, Funnye wears a skullcap and reads psalms in Hebrew while draped ...

Michigan State University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. At sundown on July 29, Jews around the world will observe Tisha B’av, the most somber of Jewish holidays. It ...

Norman Fischer has dedicated his life to Buddhism, rising to the position of abbot at the San Francisco Zen Center. But he was born a Jew and grew up chanting the Psalms in Hebrew. Once he learned the ...