This week’s Torah portion is Vayera: Genesis 18:1 – 22:24 The first Shabbat after daylight standard time always comes as a shock to the system, despite the fact that it occurs every year. Preparing to ...

This, I think, is the message of Simchat Torah: to hold firmly in one’s imagination the joyful possibility of a year made truly new; to bring heart, mind, and body to the search for something higher ...

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His work provided the basis for the worldwide best seller “The Bible Code,” but he later rejected the book as unscientific. By Clay Risen It sounds like a headline ripped from a supermarket tabloid: ...

Louis Keene spent several hours reporting from the protest in Los Angeles on Sunday. LOS ANGELES — A pro-Palestinian protest outside an Orthodox synagogue here in Los Angeles drew President Biden’s ...

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (WHDH) - Hundreds of Harvard graduates walked out of the university’s commencement ceremony Thursday, sending a defiant message after weeks of protests and a decision by the Harvard ...

The Memorial Scrolls Trust celebrated a 60th anniversary on Sunday. It has lent some 1,400 scrolls, once confiscated by the Nazis in Europe, to communities in 25 countries. By Milton Esterow Since the ...

This short animated film teaches the lessons of the Holocaust to young children. Based on Marvell Ginsburg’s beloved children’s book of the same name, THE TATTOOED TORAH recounts the true story of the ...

Conducted in synagogues all over the world, the recitation of the weekly Torah portion on Shabbat is a basic feature of Jewish communal life. There is something decidedly distinct about how we read ...

Words have the power to express ideas. But, as expressive as words can be, they can sometimes be limiting. Often, music can give soul and meaning to ideas that words cannot. This concept is also true ...

JERUSALEM, Oct 7 (Reuters) - A surprise attack by Hamas on Israel, which combined gunmen breaching security barriers with a barrage of rockets fired from Gaza, was launched at dawn on Saturday during ...

After announcing his plans to burn the Torah and the Bible in Stockholm, the 32-year-old man said this was merely a stunt to draw attention to the limits of free speech. The man who vowed to burn the ...