A Haggada, by Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman, a professor of Bible at Bar-Ilan University, is built on a claim that scholars of the ancient Near East (Middle East) have long recognized but that has never ...

An acquaintance of mine was once on a cable car in South America when it suddenly became dark. He felt someone touching his head under his kippah. When the lights ...

Worship services and children’s classes every Sunday at 10 a.m., coffee at 11 a.m. Mac and Cheese Dinner and dessert auction ...

A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: You can make a Bracha for others unless it's a pleasure-blessing — except when that pleasure is part of a mitzvah like Matzah or ...

For Yechezkel, the process of purification is placed within the national life of Israel to restore the people as a whole. Unlike Parshat Para, which focuses on the restoration of an individual so they ...

A Jewish social worker who called Pittsburgh home for 32 years spent most of Saturday sheltered behind a steel door and ...

Purim is celebrated by exchanging mishloach manot, donating to charity, eating a festive meal, and listening to the reading ...

In simpler times, it was easy to experience Parshas Zachor as having little direct relevance to our own modern lives. Despite ...

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 ...

When Jewish leadership pitches the religion as there for the taking, many opt out, but when God needs every Jew's involvement ...

A Rosh Hashanah moment in shul sparked a late-life romance in Jerusalem’s French Hill.

From kosher tailgates to blue-square anti-hate campaigns, Jewish communities across the US, and Israel found unique ways to celebrate Super Bowl weekend. Jewish communities from New York City to the ...