In an excerpt from her new book, 'Ghosts of a Holy War,' author and journalist Yardena Schwartz details a pivotal moment in Israel’s pre-state history and its haunting reverberations today ...

The 36-year-old, one of four who died in a Midtown Manhattan mass shooting, left behind a pregnant wife and two young boys.

In Hinduism and Buddhism there are hundreds of Named male Gods and several dozen major, widely known, Named Goddesses. In Judaism there is only one male God; but there are seven female Named prophets.