Torah

By: Fern Sidman History was made on Wednesday in the Empire State when a Chassidic rabbi, whose home was the target of an anti-Semitic attack...

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...

By: Fern Sidman Close to 100,000 members of the Jewish faith gathered on Wednesday afternoon at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey for the...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb I live on the eastern seaboard of the United States, which, at the time of writing this particular piece, had...

By: Rabbi: Osher Jungreis We have a teaching that everything that happened to our forefathers is a sign to the children. So when we study...

By: Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb I have known more than my share of families that are torn by discord. I think most of us,...

By: Shlomo Katz The Midrash Rabbah comments on the verse (45:28), “Yisrael said, ‘How great! My son Yosef still lives!’”– Yaakov said, “How great is the strength...

By: Rabbi Avi Shafran The well-known British doctor and pundit Jonathan Miller, who died last month, felt he had the solution to anti-Semitism. He was quoted...

Changes took place in the Hebrew month of Tevet that have cast a shadow throughout the course of Jewish history. By: Tzipporah Heller On the eighth...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this week`s parsha we read the dramatic story of Joseph who is now Viceroy of Egypt meeting his brethren after...

By: Rabbi Kenneth Auman The Medrash Rabba at the beginning of Parshat Miketz, the parsha that is read on Shabbat Chanukah this year (and in...

In-depth laws of the menorah for travelers and guests By: Rabbi Elozor Barclay & Rabbi Yitzchok Jaeger Must one light the menorah at home? The mitzvah...

By Rabbi Raymond Beyda "...They raised their eyes and they saw, behold! — A caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, their camels bearing spices,...

By Rabbi Naftali Reich Joseph knew he might never have another chance to get out of the dank Egyptian dungeon in which he had languished...

By: Rabbi Meir Kahane, ztk’l (The following article was written on December 15, 1972) If I were a Reform rabbi; if I were a leader of...

By: Rabbi Aaron Goldscheider There are several ways that one may fulfill the mitzvah of lighting the Hanukkah menorah. While one may certainly use wax...