Walk me like a palindrome forward to our common home, looking backwards at the past, thinking our love couldn’t last, though it’s lasted long enough for ...

Devorkes was born in Shaarei Chesed in 1918, where he studied first at the Etz Chayim Talmud Torah and later at the Hebron Yeshiva, as was accepted at the time. Already in his youth, he began to ...

And we reserve the penultimate aliyah of the entire Torah–Moses’s final blessings to the children ... other reality than Divinity” (my poetic translation). There is, perhaps, a temptation ...

That community is now collapsing in on itself in a moment of true rupture—and that, I believe, is not only necessary but a blessing. Usually, Jewish homes are full of extended family at this ...

It’s what anthropologists call an embodied practice: We fully engage in the ritual by speaking words of blessing and eating ... non-literal English translation, especially the ones imploring ...

A strong America will understand the importance of the biblical heartland,' Binyamin Regional Council official tells JNS.

At Gerardo Werthein's inauguration, President Javier Milei referenced the weekly Torah portion, suggesting it's a divine sign to follow Abraham's lead.

Whereas Christmas marks the birth of Jesus, Hanukkah, which was celebrated for centuries before Jesus was born, commemorates ...

Sammy Harari, a young father of three, served as my yeshiva’s counselor in 2011-2012. He was killed in action last week ...

A person may take note of this phenomenon and think, writes Rav Hirsch, “that the pronouncement of blessing and curse ... Not true, says the Torah. Hashem “watches every single person in ...

He also initiated a gender-neutral translation of a Reform prayer book into Polish. Such efforts planted a seed for the growth of other Progressive communities among the country’s tiny Jewish ...