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 ...

Two new Torah scrolls were completed and dedicated at Tufts University on Sunday, Mar. 1. The completion of the scrolls was ...

The fifth weekly biblical portion in Deuteronomy is Shoftim, “Judges.” The rabbis who were descendants of the ancient Pharisees viewed this portion as supporting the Pharisees’ views, rather than ...

Purim 2026 begins March 2. Here's what the Jewish holiday represents, why it's celebrated and why it's not 'Jewish Halloween' ...

Talyah Ginsberg is a writer, paralegal, and unapologetic Zionist living in Ra’anana. She documents the beautiful disaster of Israeli life with wit, grit, and just enough hope to stay functional. Her ...

The timing of Israel’s strike, days before the holiday, prompted religious and political figures to invoke themes from the ...

With respect to the dozens of almost exclusively non-Orthodox Rabbis who leapt enthusiastically into the Minnesota fray, ...

I admire Hertz’s willingness to engage directly with modern issues relevant to biblical criticism and classical English Bible commentaries, drawing from both Jewish and non-Jewish literary sources to ...

Rabbi David Stav shares the halakhot of reading the Scroll of Esther during times of war, explaining how Jewish law ...

For nearly a decade, the State of Israel has been playing a humiliating game of bait-and-switch at the Western Wall.

Two things can be true March 5 (16 Adar 5786) 🏃🏼‍♀️ There are no slow news weeks. 💥 President Donald Trump and Prime ...

This evening, Purim celebrations began, in accordance with the Home Front Command's guidelines, with the reading of the Megillah, telling the story of the miracle that saved the Jewish people during ...