A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: An informer who causes another's property to be seized by a lawless authority must reimburse the victim with the best of his property.

In the long history of Jewish survival, few ideas have caused more internal rot than the postwar fantasy that every Jewish man is meant to study Torah full-time. It is not a mitzvah — it is a ...

Eli found a 100 year old Torah commentary in our home library that had belonged to the grandfather of my husband, Ron. He opened the book and (accompanied by his bunny) perused the pages. Eli’s not so ...

When it came time to choose the text on which she would be sworn into the U.S. Senate, Elissa Slotkin turned to a relatively recent book that reflects her own identity as a Jewish woman. Slotkin, a ...

But it wasn’t always this way. Before the age of print, Torah texts were scarce, fragile, and painstakingly copied by hand. Even the most foundational works, such as Rashi’s commentary, circulated in ...

Erev Shavuot, Salonika, 1533. Two young Sephardic rabbinic luminaries – Rav Yosef Karo and Rav Shlomo Alkabetz – got together for Tikkun Leil Shavuot, the all night Torah study custom first mentioned ...

Join Congregation Brothers of Israel this weekend to celebrate Rabbi Cody Bahir and Cantor Neil Schnitzer's installation and ...

Much like a muscle, faith weakens faster when it isn’t used – a concept that extends to the physical scripture itself, members of Chisuk Emuna were told Sunday. The Jewish congregation, located in ...