There’s a famous story in the Bible in which Jonah, a reluctant prophet ... even if you grant the existence of miracles, where did the whale (people almost always think the fish is a whale ...

The biblical story of Jonah has always seemed rather fantastical; after all, who could survive in the belly of a whale? Since when do whales swallow people? Well, since this week, apparently ...

Because the imagery is so compelling in the story, we think of Jonah going down into the belly of the whale, which then becomes a sign of Jesus going down into death and then rising up again.

The success of the Greenpeace mission rests on finding the Japanese fleet A quick mention by them of the fate of the Biblical Jonah and the conversation was steered back to safer waters. Trying to ...

On the holiest day of the year, at the most auspicious time of the day, the afternoon Mincha Services, we read “The Story of Jonah and the Whale.” Our sages tell us that every minute and every ...

For three days and three nights Jonah was inside the great fish, later described as a whale, moreover, it was a sea animal, designated by God, for this purpose. Thus, the wise experts in the ...