A little more than 50 years ago, on December 6, 1975, a makeshift Shabbat prayer service was held in the cavernous ballroom of Lincoln Square Synagogue, which was then located on West 69th Street and ...

Candles seem to be used in a lot of different ways for Jewish people. I personally was never sure what happens at Orthodox bat mitzvahs, but I just know that it may or may not involve some sort of ...

A new anti-Israel narrative is taking shape among elements of the Democratic Party. It’s not about Gaza, settlements in Judea and Samaria, or Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s more menacing and fundamental.

Elvis Aaron Presley (1935-1977), aka “The King of Rock and Roll,” is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the twentieth century and has long been one of the most ...

An artist’s rendering of part of the new Visitor Center. It was a beautiful, clear day last week – the typical early winter weather that feels more like spring – when I visited Jerusalem’s hallowed ...

One reason given by the Elya Rabbah (Simon 492, seif 3) for these fast days is to atone for the possible sin of doing work on the recently passed Chol HaMoed of Sukkos or Pesach. One can immediately ...

Bronze sculpture of an ibex from Iran, 1st millennium BCE. Fishes are not named in either sedra – only the requirement of having fins and scales. Be aware that fish can have different types of scales ...

In Va’etchanan, we declared the Shema: “Hear, O Israel…” A moment of thunder and tenderness, of inheritance wrapped in presence. In Eikev, we continue it, not in recitation, but in enactment. Here, in ...

In the financial world, few things offer more comfort than receiving a large sum of cash. The challenge is how to handle a windfall responsibly based on the markets, economic environment, and personal ...

In his new books, Rabbi Yosef Weisenfeld eloquently addresses these questions and more while also making the reader rethink the concept of facing “mizrach.” For example, one will be surprised to learn ...

The New York Times’s July 5 edition included a long news analysis article by Michael D. Shear, “The Cost of Victory: Israel Overpowered Its Foes, but Deepened Its Isolation,” which refers to “the Oct.

The flags of Israel and Ireland at Israeli President Isaac Herzog's Jerusalem residence for the swearing-in of Irish Ambassador to Israel, Sonya McGuinness, on Sept. 19, 2023. The Irish government on ...