When author Kelsey Osgood listens to the Book of Ruth on Shavuot, the biblical narrative has a special resonance for her. Osgood, like Ruth, is a convert to Judaism — and like her ancient predecessor, ...
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, ...
A Writer With a Divine Touch Captures Life in a Christian Commune “Ruth,” by Kate Riley, is an absorbing novel about a woman torn between curiosity and purity. Fiction “Ruth,” by Kate Riley, is an ...
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