ISIS. Terrorism. Iran nuclear deals. The threat of Russia and China. Low oil and gas prices. A plummeting stock market. The 2016 Presidential race. We live in a crazy world of uncertainty, mayhem, ...

Lasting five years, eight months and five days, the Battle of the Atlantic was the longest military campaign of WWII. Allied supply convoys were being continuously threatened by German U-boats and ...

I have lost track of how many of the prophets told us to wait for the Lord, look for the Lord, be silent before the Lord, ...

In the early months of the Second World War, German U-Boats were wreaking havoc against Allied shipping in the North Atlantic. Convoys from the United States especially suffered while German submarine ...

At first glance, the association of this haftarah with the festival of Shavuot seems strange. It is not connected with Shavuot from an agricultural vantage point, nor does it touch upon the theme of ...

In Habakkuk, a slender book of 56 verses, one encounters glorious passages, such as 2:4, 14, 20; 3:2, and sparkling apothegms, 1:11; 2:2, 11, which beckon one to learn more about the book and its ...

Habakkuk also lived in a time of injustice—and just like him, we must not look away. In the Old Testament, prophets were God’s spokespeople who told it to his people straight—we must pay attention.

Big ideas can certainly come in small packages. Just ask Habakkuk, eighth of the twelve minor prophets, and certifiable man of mystery. The minor prophets, so named for the brevity of their books, ...

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I ...

“Sculpture in the Age of Donatello,” a splendid small show of early-Renaissance Florentine works at the Museum of Biblical Art, on Broadway at Sixty-first Street, impelled me to haul down my very long ...