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 ...

Israel’s parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill that would put the country’s Orthodox Chief Rabbinate in charge ...

When the reader reaches the final verse containing the words זֵכֶר עֲמָלֵק (“the memory of Amalek”) they repeat the word זֵכֶר with two different vowel sounds: once with a tzere — “zay-kher” — and ...

In a joint statement, the parties Shas, United Torah Judaism and Otzma Yehudit announce that they will vote in favor of Noam ...

When we give of ourselves without expectation of return, we awaken the divine spark that is in each of us (Terumah) ...

A series of events in College Station, Texas, marked the miraculous recovery and homecoming of Leibel Lazaroff, 20, who was ...

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CJT Oil Company in Midland is turning tragedy into a positive by creating the Barrels for Blessings campaign. The company, whose initials stand for Christ Jesus Torah, will host a vigil at about 10:30 ...

The Torah contains an amalgamation of precepts that are both admirable and troublesome. Curses are plentiful in this week’s parsha, for such offenses as insulting your mother and father, accepting ...

“See, this day I set before you blessing and curse: blessing, if you obey the commandments of your God that I enjoin upon you this day; and curse, if you do not obey the commandments of your God.” ...

Synopsis: The requirement of having a minimum of 10 men present for synagogue services and other mitzvot that are davar she’b’kedusha (matters of sanctity) is derived through the hermeneutic principle ...