By Tzvi Freeman
I always get conflicting answers regarding the theory of evolution and Judaism. Could you clarify?
By Yossi Krausz
A candid discussion with Professor Lawrence Schiffman about the Qumran scrolls.
By Tzvi Freeman
It’s not clear to me what this yeshiva place is all about, and definitely not clear why I should take off in the middle of my studies to go there.
By Sara Esther Crispe
I tried, like always, to make eye contact with those in front of me. The problem, however, was that there was not a single person looking at me.
By Aron Moss
"But I have nothing to wear," she says... and she has 78 outfits hanging in the wardrobe right in front of her!
By Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky
In addition to his laptop, Rosen’s body language, facial expressions, personality, emotions help him convey messages.
By Sarah Zadok
I regularly buy into the illusion that I am in control of the events of my kids’ lives. Regrettably, I am not.
The innermost chamber in Pharaoh’s palace, the midnight death of Egypt’s firstborn, the Passover offering, the Exodus and the unleavened bread.
By Yossy Goldman
It is not enough to let our people go. We have to take them somewhere.
By Chaim Miller
Why the Torah does not begin with the first mitzvah, and why “narrowmindedness” is the root of all evil.
By Zalman Posner
The darkness in Egypt was miraculous and inescapable. The darkness which lurks within is natural—but can be dealt with.
By Lazer Gurkow
The things he took were just things, easily forgotten and easily replaced. But the sense of violation and intrusion is harder to forget.
Knowing exactly when the month begins has always been important in Jewish practice, because the Torah schedules the Jewish festivals according to the days of the month.
By Mendel Kaplan
G‑d gives the Jewish people their first mitzvah: “sanctifying the month”—to establish the calendar based on the lunar cycle.
with Benny Rapoport
Why is sanctifying the new moon the first mitzvah given to the Jewish people?
By Chana Weisberg
The catalyst for any awakening is action. Transformation begins as soon as we are ready to take the first step in the right direction.
By Shimon Posner
Imagine coming home one day, taking the beloved idiot box and throwing it out the window . . .
By Malkie Janowski
Was the Passover offering that we used to eat a lamb or a kid goat?
By Yehoshua Soudakoff
G‑d instructed the Jewish people to take lambs and tie them to their bedposts for four days. Why?
By Tzvi Freeman
An enigma among human rituals: Black leather boxes containing parchment scrolls inscribed in meticulous accordance with the criteria of an ageless scribal art. Not to be read, but to be worn . . .
You connect your head, your heart and your hand with these leather cables. And then, when you go out to meet the world, all your actions find harmony in a single coordinated purpose . . .
By Yerachmiel Tilles
He was willing to forgo his whole share in the estate, in exchange for the tefillin.
By Libby Herz
Before Bar Mitzvah boy Jeremy Benjamin ascended to the Torah at his Nashville, synagogue, he learned to don tefillin and also spent quite some time on an activity just as necessary: preserving the memories of hundreds of survivors.
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