Torah

Kirk Douglas has died at the age of 103. He was one of the last of the stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Here are...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb It is a familiar domestic scene, one that we have all experienced. The family is about to leave on a...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis This Shabbos is known as the "Sabbath of Song" because it is in this parsha that Moses leads the Jewish men, and Miriam the prophetess,...

By: Sarah Schneider Run a search on food and Jewish culture on Google and you will get about 2,380,000 results, including one which starts with...

The holiday of trees celebrates the essence of life and Creation: giving. By: Rabbi Tzvi Nightingale According to Jewish tradition, Tu B'Shvat is the New Year...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis At the beginning of the parsha, we are told that one of HaShem`s goals in the exodus from Egypt was to...

By: Rabbi Yissocher Frand This week’s parsha contains a “famous pasuk”: “They baked the dough that they took out of Egypt into unleavened cakes, for...

By: Ariel Natan Pasko They come, they cry, they pay homage, and they leave. And where do they go back to? To places where anti-Semitism...

The “new year for trees” has a special set of meaningful customs. By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons Tu B’Shvat appears in the Talmud (Rosh Hashanah 2a) as...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb I remember the conversation very well. It was a discussion among a group of assorted friends, from a variety of...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis To find the proper words on such occasions is never easy, but that was the challenge of Moshe Rabbenu as he...

By: Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg What is evil, and how does one comprehend its place in our lives? In Judaism, the question of evil and...

She inspired her children and grandchildren to spread Judaism around the world By: Menachem Posner Sonia (Sarah Pesha) Kaplan, who stood up to Stalinist persecution and...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis To find the proper words on such occasions is never easy, but that was the challenge of Moshe Rabbenu as he...

By: Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier “And Moshe returned to HASHEM and said, “HASHEM, why have You done evil to this people? Why have You sent...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this parsha, we meet the greatest man who ever walked on planet earth, the man who actually spoke to G-d...