Hanukkah—also spelled Chanukah, among other spellings—is the annual Jewish festival of lights that takes place in the winter. The eight-day festival sees families gather together to celebrate at home ...

Two, 4, 6, 8 … What comes next? Once you recognize this as a sequence of even numbers, counted by twos, then you know that the numbers 10 and 12 come next. Two, 3, 5, 7, 11 … What comes next? This ...

My mother, z”l, measured her great success in the women’s clothing business by the number of women who liked the clothes she chose for them. When I was young, my mother shared with me her “secret of ...

This week's Dvar Torah is by Rabbi Yeroham Simsovic,former Rav shaliach in Oxford (2006-2007) and is currently teaching at Yeshivat Horev in Jerusalem In the issue of Isaac’s blessings to his sons, ...

In this week’s Torah portion, Jacob is grappling with fear at the prospect of returning home to his parents’ house more than 20 years after he left. Last he heard, his father Isaac was dying, his twin ...