Even atheists can enjoy these secular Yiddish poems and their English translations, related to the Torah reading.

Well, we have come to the end of the 53 (gematria of the word GAN – meaning garden) portions of the Torah. This week we start all over again. I once asked some first graders why we keep reading the ...

As we begin the Torah with Bereishit, we are reminded by the Netziv that our forefathers' uprightness contrasts with the ...

Renewal is integral to our human experience. We are dynamic creatures, just like the world around us,” writes.

I had said the trigger word – sirens. “No more air raid sirens.” Air raid sirens. Her super-fear. Mention of sirens triggered ...

Sign up for the Yiddish Brief, a bissel of all things Yiddish, brought to you weekly by our Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter. A young woman is gingerly applying ...

(RNS) — The Jewish attitude toward foreign-born people, who often have risked their lives to come here, legally or otherwise, is one of mercy and concern. (RNS) — No one knows who wrote the Jewish ...

We’ve endured for so long because we’ve always found good reasons to continue our story; we’ve always had good things to look ...

Shemini Atzeret, both a biblically mandated festival and the Yartzeit of hundreds of Jews murdered two years ago, is now and ...

Based on the pattern expressed earlier of connecting the ending and beginning of the Torah, we notice that the last letter of ...