One of the key concepts in Judaism is the idea of impartiality in judgment. In the context of leadership, the Torah calls for the appointment of leaders who are wise, understanding, and respected, wit ...

One of Israel's most divisive domestic issues has reared itself again to challenge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after a ...

We are coming off of the beautiful holiday of Purim. In the Megillah, we read how Haman offered King Ahasuerus 10,000 kikar ...

The rabbi of Beit Simchat Torah in Manhattan compared Trump's administration to the 30 days of mourning and detachment that ...

Ben Gvir's return to the coalition defangs UTJ chief Yitzchak Goldknopf's threat to scuttle 2025 state budget unless law ...

Yeshiva, a Modern Orthodox Jewish school in New York, had refused for years to recognize the club. The resulting legal fight ...

The Romans named the seventh day Saturday, based on the Roman god Saturn. The word means “enough.” Saturn’s reign was ...

Does anything I wrote have to do with parshat Vayakhel? Absolutely. Not only is that an affirmative answer, but it connects ...

In honor of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s 100th birthday, we take a deep dive into the cultural institution’s ...

The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

The tenth and eleventh weekly Torah readings from Exodus, Vayakkel (35:1-38:20) and Pekekudei (38:21-40:38) deal with the construction of the Tabernacle during Moses’s time. Many readers think the ...

This is a figure who was part of our community, and her work enriched the lives of so many synagogues and so many people who ...