Over the course of my years as a rabbi and founder and head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the biblical story I’m asked most about is the Tower of Babel (Genesis ...

Reading Genesis to this point, one thing should stand out: the unity of the human family. Indeed, humanity is presented as a family that, as sin increasingly pervades the picture, is more and more a ...

In the third book of C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy, That Hideous Strength, the evil organization “N.I.C.E.” Is finally defeated when the spell of Babel is cast upon them and they can no longer ...

For centuries, people have used mythology to try to make sense of the fact that the people of the world speak so many different languages. One example of the origin story of the "confusion of tongues" ...