We are taught repeatedly that the Torah shuns negative words and idioms whenever possible. Why, then, is the parsha named for ...

In a safe and secure future, Israel will not be dependent for its protection on the goodwill of foreign peoples, and its fate will not hinge on their empty and aimless predictions and theories about u ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: The revolutionary principle that separating tithes and giving them to Kohanim is one unified mitzvah performed at the moment of ...

Yiddish World Blog ties weekly Torah portion with works of Yiddish writers For last week’s portion, the blog matches the story of Jacob’s daughter Dina with a poem about her by the poet Itsik ...

Jacob has fled from the murderous anger of his brother, Esau. He comes to a certain place, and he falls asleep. As he sleeps, he dreams of a ladder that stretches from the earth to the heavens — with ...

Jacob is the 'good guy' in his family, but was his twin really such a villain? What if he had been educated with the love ...

Under the program, which is co-sponsored by Sefaria, Chabad, Yeshiva University, Tablet Magazine, UJA-Federation of New York, Moishe House, Hillel International and Jewish Federations of North America ...

Fear and the Remedy Thoughts on Torah portions Tazria/Metzora 2025 (adapted from previous years) This week’s Torah portion is about mass fear, or better put, how to stave off mass fear.