Spotted on the Skokie calendar: Chicago Artisan Market in Fulton Market - Sun, Mar 8th (Spring Forward) ...

We arrived in Israel a number of weeks ago to visit our recently married granddaughter and her husband, who is studying in Israel. We stayed in a great apartment, owned by my sister-in-law, at Keter ...

The Torah reading this Shabbat, like a significant subset of Shabbatot throughout the year, contains two different facets. The first is the reading that is next in line within the ...

Culture and Sport Minister Miki Zohar (Likud) on Wednesday spoke out against the arrest of yeshiva students who fail to enlist inthe IDF. Speaking to Kol Hai Radio, Zohar described the idea of ...

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This happened because they had spent the previous day immersed in the Divine until their souls outshone their egos. Our bodies compete for space, attention, and resources; our souls do not. The body ...

Q: Must rabbis be seated at the front of the synagogue facing the congregation? A: Our Sages said: “How would the elders sit? Their faces toward the people and their backs toward the kodesh (the Holy ...

Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss, Ph.D., a Reform rabbi, biblical scholar and educator who helped shape generations of Jewish clergy through her work at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and who ...

This week’s Torah portion, T’rumah, represents another abrupt shift in focus within the book of Exodus from the mostly legal material of last week’s portion, Mishpatim, to the first of ...

Rabbi Yitzhak Biton reflects on strength after tragic loss. His powerful message inspires resilience amid the war’s challenges.

Jewish religious life reorganized itself around prayer, Torah study, and synagogue practice after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE and has functioned without a physical temple for nearly ...

Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers Reading, writing and learning a language or two can lower your ...