The prerequisite to understanding any story is answering the question: What is its genre? This might seem like an easy task, but it’s really not. Let’s say that someone gets offended by a joke. The ...

Explore the Lesson of the Ram in this week's Torah portion. Understand the deep meanings behind Shabbat preparations and rest.

Marking fifty years since the Rebbe introduced the 12 Pesukim, the Rosh Chodesh Society launches a new Torah & Tea series for ...

The Torah teaches us to revere our mother and father (Lev. 19:3). This mitzvah is embedded within the Holiness Code. In observing it, we achieve holiness, as well as the wholeness of learning from the ...

Many of us find it hard to relate to the Torah portion of Vayikra. It focuses on a practice that is no longer in use today. We learn of various types of sacrifices and how they were to be fulfilled on ...

In the month of Tishrei, the students from Chabad Girls Academy of Crown Heights took a meaningful learning trip to visit ...

After repeatedly denouncing and prohibiting the creation of statues, portrayals of the human form, or anything resembling idols—on pain of death—God issues an unusual command. In the construction of ...

The Torah, known to Christians as The Five Books of Moses," is chanted aloud year-round in synagogues all over the world. Regardless of which branch of Judaism a community is affiliated with, the same ...

“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but hard words stir up anger” (Proverbs 15: 1). “Gentle words bring life and health; a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit” (Proverbs 15:4). RECENTLY, JEWS BEGAN ...

“Someone knew to do their research,” commented a onetime adviser to Israeli prime ministers. (JTA) — Throughout President Joe Biden’s visit to Jerusalem this week, he has underscored the ways that he ...

Haredi leader Rabbi Dov Lando criticized draft initiatives and called for the continued strengthening of Torah study.