Rabbi Hayim Asher Arking Rabbi Ezra Ghodsi Note: The following Halachot apply only to Asarah B’tevet and similar fast days, not to Tisha B’av or Yom Kippur. Why...

In a first, Australian state government encourages acts of kindness to honor victims By: Moshe New The New South Wales government—the Australian state where the Bondi...

By: Reuven Y. Epstein At a time when headlines around the world chronicle a troubling resurgence of antisemitic incidents, a prominent American rabbi is offering...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin In parshas Vayechi, Yaakov faces his end of life. “…It was said to Yosef, behold, your father is sick…” (Bereishis 48:1)...

By: Rabbi Yosef Kalatsky The Special Level of Yaakov, Our Patriarch The Midrash Tanchuma states, “Reb Shimon Bar Yochai said, “Hashem said to the Klal Yisroel...

  By: Phyllis Chesler For centuries, at least for two millennia, so many great European Torah scholars memorialized their thoughts on sunless and snowy days. Perhaps...

Thousands of mitzvot performed at the site of Australia’s deadliest antisemitic attack By: Motti Wilhelm On the afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 14, Bondi Beach in Sydney,...

By: Fern Sidman In the aftermath of one of the darkest days in Australia’s recent history, a story of extraordinary courage has emerged—one that has...

By: TJVNews.com In the largest public Menorah celebrations in New York City, nearly 18,000 people gathered at Barclays Center Thursday night as the Brooklyn Nets...

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...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin “Vayigash, and he approached”. The parsha opens with Yehuda pleading to Yosef on behalf of his youngest brother, Binyamin. Picture it. Yosef, Viceroy...

Light Over Silence: Amy Schumer Marks Hanukkah With Defiance, Faith, and a Hard Lesson in Who Stood With Her After Oct. 7 By: Abe Wertenheim Amy...

  By: Jeff Gorman Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s Hanukkah message to New York was not delivered in the form of a standard holiday greeting or a brief...

  Brooklyn Nets Game Becomes Stage for Defiant Message of Light in Face of Tragedy By: TJVNews.com In the largest public Menorah celebrations in New York City,...

Rabbi Yehuda Shurpin (Chabad.org) The basic story goes like this: The Syrian-Greeks entered the Temple and defiled all the oil there. When the Hasmoneans reclaimed the Temple,...

Binyamin & Talya Kahane to Be Remembered 25 Years After Their Murder By: Fern Sidman Twenty-five years after the fatal ambush that claimed the lives of...