This Rosh Hashanah, make sure one thing is at the very top of your priority list: hearing the shofar. Why? 1. It’s a Mitzvah Sometimes the most important reason is...

By: Fern Sidman The narrow streets and imposing concrete towers of London’s Barbican estate conceal more than the city’s modernist legacy. As VIN News reported...

By: Menachem Posner Replete with rich Hebrew texts and chants, Torah reading laden with meaning, and blowing of the shofar (ram’s horn), Rosh Hashanah prayer...

By: Fern Sidman The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Wednesday has sent waves of grief and indignation through Jewish communities in both the...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin On both Rosh Ha Shana and Yom Kippur, we recite Unesaneh Tokef, one of the most stirring and heartrending tefillos. We...

By: Rabbi Eliyahu Hoffman Parshas Nitzavim contains a section called Parshas ha-Teshuva, The Chapter of Repentance; so called because in this chapter Moshe encourages Bnei...

Jonah and Gaza: Not a Popularity Contest In courtrooms of The Hague, in lecture halls from New York to London, and across social media, Israel...

  Edited by: TJVNews.com The usual back-to-school jitters were replaced with pure excitement at the Jewish Foundation School. Instead of just facing a new classroom, students...

Edited by: TJVNews.com This week, the air at Aur Torah Sephardic Minyan was not just filled with the sweet scent of apples and honey. It...

  By: Fern Sidman The narrow streets and imposing concrete towers of London’s Barbican estate conceal more than the city’s modernist legacy. As VIN News reported...

By: Yehuda Altein Just to the north of Israel lies Lebanon, a small, beautiful country with a long history of Jewish presence. Although the source...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Sharon and I came from different backgrounds. I was the rabbi’s daughter, and Sharon grew up in a traditional home. Since...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb We all have our secret lives. I don’t mean to say that each of us has a sinister side, which we...

“Sports. Crowds. Power.”: World Jewish Congress Exhibition at the UN Highlights How the Nazi Regime Weaponized Sport By: Fern Sidman On Monday, the World Jewish Congress...

By: Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf Question: Why don’t we celebrate New Year’s in January? Answer: The calendar that begins in January and ends in December is known...

By: Miriam Szokovski When it comes to cooking in advance and freezing, some things fare better than others. Baked goods—challah, cakes, cookies—wrapped tightly come out...