Torah

By: Rabbi Yochanan Zweig "The Torah that Moshe commanded us is a heritage to the Congregation of Jacob"(33:4) Simchas Torah is a day in which we...

Edited by: JV Staff (Some of what follows is based on these works: "The Festivals in Halachah," by Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin, ZT"L, translated by...

By: Rabbi Moshe Gersht On Yom Kippur, we disengage from the normal lives that we live and enter a place of holiness. We don’t eat...

Guidelines for the holiest day of the Jewish year By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons Following the sin of the Golden Calf, Moses pleaded with God to forgive...

Here are nine often overlooked facts about Yom Kippur to enhance your experience of the Jewish day of repentance. Dr. Yvette Alt Miller We eat a...

From hatred to hope, and from loss to resolve By: Tzemach Feller The Jewish year 5779 was replete with consequential events, and Chabad.org/News covered hundreds of...

Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog: “The challenges for the new year are combating anti-Semitism and connecting global Jewish youth to Israel.” Edited by: JV...

Since summer seems long-gone and families are knee-deep in activities already, make it a little easier on yourself. Make the freezer your friend By: Ethel...

By: Rafael Medoff As the final minutes of Rosh Hashanah ticked away, 13-year-old Leo Goldberger was hiding, along with his parents and three brothers, in...

By: Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb For the past several weeks, certain ideas have dominated my consciousness. Don't worry, these are not obsessive thoughts, and...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis The parsha always shows us the way to realize the challenges of the moment, and this week’s parsha Nitzavim is no exception; we...

By: Reuven Chaim Klein During the month of Elul and the Ten Days of Repentance, we customarily pray that G-d forgive all our sins. These...

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...

The last month of the Jewish calendar is actually the most important – serving as preparation for the High Holidays By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons If you...

No one can help you grow unless you take responsibility for yourself By: Rabbi Noah Weinberg A pious man encountered a group of triumphant soldiers coming...

By: Rabbi David Bibi Before Times Square became the home of dueling Spider men, battling Betty Boops and pushy Sponge Bobs, all hoping to share...