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Parshas Vayera – Torah Manners

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis This week’s parsha imparts to us lessons for life–how we should conduct ourselves in our daily affairs and in our relationships. Interestingly...

Rachel Imeinu & the 11th of Cheshvan

Rachel Imeinu & the 11th of Cheshvan By: Yitzchak Ginsburgh One of the most important days in the month of Cheshvan is the 11th, which commemorates...

Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass and the Beginning of the Holocaust

Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass and the Beginning of the Holocaust Edited by: Fern Sidman On the night of November 9, 1938, an orchestrated wave...

American Jewish Organizations Welcome Trump’s Election, Look to Strengthen U.S.-Israel Ties and Combat Rising Anti-Semitism

American Jewish Organizations Welcome Trump’s Election, Look to Strengthen U.S.-Israel Ties and Combat Rising Anti-Semitism Edited by: TJVNews.com In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election as...

5 Archeological Echoes of the Babylonian Exile

By: Yehudis Litvak The Exile Began 11 Years Before the Temple Was Destroyed The Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar set out on an extensive campaign, intending...

Parshas Lech Lecha – Fly Your Banner

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Life comes with both good days and challenging ones. While we are blessed, at times we are tested. Pirkei Avos teaches “Asara...

Parshat Lech Lecha – The Story of Our People

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this week’s parsha, the history of the Jewish people commences. Until now, in the portions of Genesis and Noah, we...

Apologists for Anti-Zionism Teaching About Anti-Zionism

Apologists for Anti-Zionism Teaching About Anti-Zionism By: Moshe Phillips     A professor who says anti-Zionism is not necessarily anti-Semitic has been hired by a prominent New York...

Kalman Ber to Be Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi

(JNS) – Rabbi Kalman Ber from Netanya was elected Israel’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi on Thursday, defeating Rabbi Micha Halevi in a run-off vote. A moderate...

Points of Light in a Year of Darkness

By: Chana Hirschowitz “What happened?” I asked naively. For the first time, I heard the words “hostages,” “babies,” “a massacre.” “Are you sure?” I pressed, willing...

13 Heroes of October 7th and the Aftermath

By: Bruria Efune The worst of times brings out the best of our people. The past year has been filled with torrents of heartbreak and trauma...

Parshas Noach – Over the Rainbow

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin “He was named Noach, saying this one will ease our work, and bring us rest from the toil of our hands….”...

Parshas Noach – ”Survivors of Trauma”

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb There are many words in the English language that originally had great power but have become watered down over the...

How to Celebrate Simchat Torah

Unbridled joy, aliyahs for everyone, concluding the Torah and starting it anew By: Chabad.org In 2024, Simchat Torah (which comes on the heels Shemini Atzeret) begins...

15 Simchat Torah Facts Every Jew Should Know

By: Chabad.org Simchat Torah Comes After Sukkot The sukkah at the East River Esplanade at East 84th Street (Photo: Howard Blas) Shemini Atzeret (“The Eighth...

Parshas Bereishis – The Secrets of Creation

By: Rabbi Pinchas Winston In the beginning, God made the Heaven and the Earth. (Bereishis 1:1) The words are so incredibly simple, and yet, of course,...

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