More young Jewish professionals are turning to Torah for guidance and they'll be in Crown Heights this Shabbos. Eric ...

This Tu B’Shvat, the Batsheva Learning Center is inviting women to explore these questions through a new learning ...

Torah learning benefits the student in both this world and beyond. Mishna Zayin succinctly captures this: “Torah is great, for it grants life in this world and the next.” This dual reward underscores ...

The enigmatic process of the sotah (Numbers 5:11-31) is found in this portion of the Torah. Many rationales have been used to explain this concept, but this week I would like to show how the sotah ...

Christmas Eve, known as Nittel Nacht to many, was traditionally a fearsome day for Jews. Now it’s an opportunity to spread kindness. (JTA) — In the modern era, holidays like Christmas and Easter are ...

There are no coincidences in life. On June 14th I attended a conference of Temech, an organization whose goal is to help haredi women achieve financial independence through guidance in building their ...

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At this time, we Jews are observing Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, our holiest day of the year, and a full day in the Synagogue. You might think that when this exhaustive holiday is over, we take a ...

It’s the end of summer 2014. Rosh Hashanah is approaching, and with it the finale of the seven-year shmita cycle, a time when agricultural land lies fallow in Israel, perennials are harvested, and ...

Rabbi Dov Lando leading Lithuanian-haredi rabbi, praises yeshiva students arrested for draft evasion, says Torah itself ...