In a world that celebrates instant success and overnight transformation, the Torah offers a very different vision of ...

The prerequisite to understanding any story is answering the question: What is its genre? This might seem like an easy task, but it’s really not. Let’s say that someone gets offended by a joke. The ...

The Torah teaches us to revere our mother and father (Lev. 19:3). This mitzvah is embedded within the Holiness Code. In observing it, we achieve holiness, as well as the wholeness of learning from the ...

Many of us find it hard to relate to the Torah portion of Vayikra. It focuses on a practice that is no longer in use today. We learn of various types of sacrifices and how they were to be fulfilled on ...

After repeatedly denouncing and prohibiting the creation of statues, portrayals of the human form, or anything resembling idols—on pain of death—God issues an unusual command. In the construction of ...

It seems that if you scratch the surface of the latest political debate in the United States about federal funding for many governmental programs, you will find a bedrock philosophical disagreement ...

The parashah opens with a command that honestly doesn’t sound comforting at all: בֹּא אֶל־פַּרְעֹה — Bo el-Paró. It doesn’t ...

The Torah, known to Christians as The Five Books of Moses," is chanted aloud year-round in synagogues all over the world. Regardless of which branch of Judaism a community is affiliated with, the same ...

“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but hard words stir up anger” (Proverbs 15: 1). “Gentle words bring life and health; a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit” (Proverbs 15:4). RECENTLY, JEWS BEGAN ...

(JTA) — Throughout President Joe Biden’s visit to Jerusalem this week, he has underscored the ways that he believes the United States and Israel are aligned. But in his remarks Thursday afternoon ...

Raised without a strong foundation of faith in the former Soviet Union, Avrohom Kremansky took a trip to Israel in his mid-20s and discovered his Judaism. About five years ago, Kremansky, now a father ...

The Dean of the Ramat Gan Hesder Yeshiva, Rabbi Ben-Zion Algazi, delivered a Torah lecture to open the Elul Zman (yeshiva session) on Monday in the middle of the Gaza Strip, together with his students ...