(RNS) — The Jewish attitude toward foreign-born people, who often have risked their lives to come here, legally or otherwise, is one of mercy and concern. (RNS) — No one knows who wrote the Jewish ...

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. Have you ever attended a pidyon haben? It’s the ceremony when a first-born, 31 ...

Blog ties weekly Torah portion with works of Yiddish writers For last week’s portion, the blog matches the story of Jacob’s daughter Dina with a poem about her by the poet Itsik Manger.

The Lord said to Moses: Count every firstborn male aged one month and upward of the children of Israel, and take the number of their names. ~ Numbers 3:40 What if holiness was contagious? Instead of a ...

COLlive.com presents a weekly series from the creative minds at the Jewish Children's Museum in Crown Heights. Parsha Studio will explore the Parsha through crafting, painting, science experiments, ...

A people’s army is necessary for Israel to fulfill the Divine commandment of sovereignty over our land. “Take a census of the entire assembly of the children of Israel according to their families, ...

This Wednesday night, Over 500+ Lubavitchers are marking the completion of learning a daf of Likkutei Torah per day as a part of a new initiative to fulfill the Rebbe’s request to finish Torah Ohr / ...

As we seem ready to enter Israel, a counting of the Jewish People takes place. Nachmanides offers several rationales for this census (Numbers 1:45). First, it expresses God’s mercy. When Jacob came to ...

The name of the fourth of Moses’ five books of the Torah is called Bamidbar in Hebrew, meaning “in the desert.” As with the four other books, it is also the name of the first Torah portion of its ...