Nineveh

Jonah is a prophet for today

By Thomas Reese — January 22, 2024
(RNS) — God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza.

Bernard-Henri Levy is still my main man

By Jeffrey Salkin — February 20, 2017
Bernard-Henri Levy is the coolest Jew in the world. But, can he teach us Judaism?

Displaced Iraqi Christians await return to Mosul with bated breath

By guest — October 21, 2016
BAGHDAD (RNS) As Iraqi forces begin the long-awaited offensive to retake Mosul and neighboring towns from the Islamic State group, Iraqi Christians on the Nineveh plain hope their time in exile is soon coming to an end.

What the Book of Jonah can teach us about the global refugee crisis (COMMENTARY)

By Will Berkovitz — October 9, 2015
(RNS) For $20,000 you can take your family on a luxurious Mediterranean cruise. Or you can pay a smuggler to take your family on overcrowded life raft or rubber fishing dinghy, and pray they make it to the European coast without drowning.
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