For generations of Jews, the Shabbat represented an unbreakable freedom. They knew every new Pharaoh was a phony, and that no ...

Temple Emanu El in Orange held its Consecration of six first-graders on Jan. 17 during erev Shabbat services, with Rabbi Matt ...

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

Hostage Eliya Cohen passed a message through freed hostages to his mother that he does kiddush before Shabbat and prays every ...

When Rabbi Zalman Wircberg was on the road as part of singer Matisyahu’s touring crew, he learned a lot about the ...

Ikar, the unique and progressive synagogue in Los Angeles, will celebrate its 21st birthday this year. But Rabbi Sharon Brous ...

In Zimbabwe and South Africa, the Lemba have kept Jewish traditions for centuries—observing Shabbat, keeping kosher, and preserving an unbroken lineage. Yet their isolation from the wider Jewish world ...

I have recently pointed out some of the negative aspects of the Yeshiva World. This week, I want to pay tribute to a ...

Merchant Antonio (Jesse Nerenberg) lends money to his friend Bassanio (Cameron Laurie) so the latter can travel to Belmont to ...

The quintessence of the story is that Abraham wanted to make it well-known to people that they should recognize G-d as the Creator and be grateful to Him. In order to get the audience for this message ...

Over the past two weeks, the exceptional bochurim of Yeshivas Lubavitch Tiferes Yisroel (YLTY) had the incredible zechus of ...