MOBILE, ALABAMA - In a glass case on the pulpit of Springhill Avenue Temple — Mobile’s Reform Jewish congregation — a Torah endures that survived the Holocaust in Trebic, Czechoslovakia. The sacred ...

The endless debate over Haredi conscription into the IDF contains several especially vexing aspects. Neither side’s arguments are entirely convincing or easily discounted, even though each side thinks ...

Shavuot is a deeply sacred time when we honor God’s gift of Torah, celebrating the wisdom, guidance, and divine teachings revealed to Israel at Sinai. Tonight, as a Christian honored to participate in ...

When we quote the gedolim, we should always, after their name write “says”, rather than said. It’s important that we acknowledge that our gedolim are here with us and we should feel their presence ...

In the Hasidic Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park, Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch runs two museums side by side on the corner of 41st Street and 16th Avenue. Torah Animal World and the Living Torah ...

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot is scheduled to leave Israel this coming Sunday for Poland, where he will head the Israeli delegation in the annual March of the Living from the Auschwitz death camp ...

The author saw the Milky Way with ease the night before chanting the Haftarah associated with the new moon and Shabbat. Every Saturday morning, a certain portion of the Torah is read so that the ...

No one refutes the Torah greatness of the Ramban. He established that the mitzvah of living in the Land of Israel is commandment of the Torah. An Orthodox Jew who doesn’t live in the Land of Israel is ...

Each country has its own traditions regarding the encasing and decoration of its Torah scrolls. In Morocco, for example, it was customary to cover the scroll with a mantle, unlike the tradition in ...

Parshat Mishpatim elaborates on the Brit Sinai – the new covenant between Israel and the Creator established to supplement the original covenant forged with the patriarchs. Parshat Mishpatim – which ...

“reason” is economic, but a deep hatred based on mere difference underlies this attempted genocide. Helpless, you cry out. Who, in heaven and on earth, will hear your cries and move to save you?