As we consider this week's Torah portion, we might also consider our own situations as present-day custodians and witnesses ...

Abraham was chosen as the father of people from all nations who would join his family through faith in the God of Abraham.

Whether you are looking for conversion classes that you can take from your couch, want to go a bit deeper into the Torah, or ...

Musicals often center on outsiders striving to belong, and "Wicked," while not overtly Jewish, speaks to that experience.

Every Jewish male is commanded to write a Torah scroll for himself. Today the practice is to fulfill the commandment of ...

"In the story of Esau, one can hear the heart-wrenching cry of a young man who has lost his rightful place in his family." ...

The gala banquet closing out the 42nd International Kinus Hashluchim came after five days of programs and workshops, prayer ...

Rabbi Halivni’s magnum opus is 'Mekorot Umesorot' ('Sources and Traditions'), a monumental 10-volume, source-critical commentary on the Talmud in Hebrew.

That said, one episode in the Portion of Toledot makes a compelling case for the Tortoise. A famine forces Isaac and Rebecca to move to Gerar, a Philistine town identified as Tel Haror, near ...

JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL R. Shlomo Pereira. 1218 The Poet’s Pilgrimage: Yehudah al-Harizi’s Journey to the Land of Israel. In 1218, when the renowned Hebrew poet a ...

Mob targeting Shas lawmaker Yoav Ben-Tzur draws widespread condemnation; Bnei Brak home of UTJ's Ya'akov Asher also sees ...

Ruth’s “I will go” is a declaration of loyalty stronger than blood. She leaves behind her homeland, her gods, and her past to walk beside Naomi into an uncertain future. Through that act of love, she ...