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 ...

When most people think of Israel, especially Christians in Ghana, Nigeria and several East African countries, they imagine a deeply religious nation .

Weiss died on Tuesday, surrounded by family at her home in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, following a year-long battle with ...

For centuries, lions have artistically adorned the covers and silver accoutrements of Torah scrolls and countless Holy Arks.The post Is it time for an official mascot? appeared first on JNS.org.

Purim reminds us that Jewish continuity is a miracle, sustained by belief, identity, and unwavering strength.

Rabbi Andrea Weiss, a former provost of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion who made history as the first woman to ordain rabbis in the Reform movement, has died.

In a daring interpretation, classic to the Chassidic approach toward Judaism, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak becomes the great "advocate" for the Jewish people, as he always was.

But Parashat Ki Tissa insists that shattered tablets are not the end of the story. They are the beginning of the second ones.

It would be a major mistake to judge from the Palestinian-Israeli political conflict in the 20th century that Jewish-Muslim relations have usually been poor. The opposite is true. Prior to the rise of ...

We think we know who the bad guys are in Parashat Ki Tisa. The Israelites panic. Moses has been gone too long. Forty days feels like forever. They want certainty, something tangible, something they ...

As Bar Ilan University professor Joshua Berman engagingly and convincingly demonstrates in his “Echoes of Egypt” Haggadah, the process by which the Passover story took shape was as a polemic against ...

וַיִּסֹּ֥ב שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל לָלֶ֑כֶת וַיַּחֲזֵ֥ק בִּכְנַף־מְעִיל֖וֹ וַיִּקָּרַֽע As Samuel turned to leave, Saul seized the corner ...