So did the other 350 residents of Israel’s only Messianic Jewish moshav. Sitting on a pine-covered ridge about ten miles west of Jerusalem, the Yad HaShmona community has lived in steady tension ...

Well-known Religious Zionist scholar Rabbi Alan Haber is convinced we are living in messianic times. Rabbi Haber wrote, “To me, it is clear that we are in stages of the messianic times already ...

5:116) Jews are in full accord with this. In the Hebrew Bible the primary cause of the Messianic Age is God. That a specific human being would play an important role in ushering in the Messianic ...

(my translation) This Mishnah depicts an apocalyptic, catastrophic messianic period. Such depictions of the days of the Messiah are commonplace in the Talmud, Kabbalah, and Jewish literature ...

Chipotle customers have complained that portion sizes are all over the map. The company finally has a solution – “consistent and generous portions.” That’s according to Scott Boatwright ...

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, ...

“How did things get this way?” is probably one of the first things that ancient human beings asked. Not most of them, for sure. Like today, most people have enough to do trying to figure out ...

In response to the moral and ethical corruption of the world, God decides to bring a flood to destroy it. However, before executing this severe decree, He commands Noah to build a large ark to ...

The Mongols. The Russian depredations in Ukraine. The list is long. Imagine that the background of our Torah portion is these maniacal tribes are winning their war against humanity and are closing ...

There seems to be an emphasis on preparation in the parsha of Migdal Bavel (the Tower of Babel). “הבה נלבנה לבנים” – let’s get ready and make bricks, & הבה נבנה לנו ...

Terach, Abraham’s father, is often viewed in the Midrash as an evil man and nothing more than an idol worshipper (Bereishit Rabbah 38:13). A review of the literal text indicates otherwise.