How sad that the nature of created mankind, with the ability to either trust and obey God or to disobey Him, inevitably led ...

Reading can cause many different emotions. For some people, beginning a new book produces excitement about where the narrative will take them. Then there’s the pleasure of the plot itself, watching ...

A new translation and commentary. After the Shoah—and after modern secularism’s fall from privilege—it is time for Jews to return to reading the Torah as God’s guiding word to them. It is time for ...

Simchat Torah. It’s the Jewish holiday that comes after all the important Jewish holidays — Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot — this time of year. At the end of one Torah-reading cycle and the ...

American Jews prepared to celebrate one of their faith's most joyous holidays after the release of 20 Israeli hostages.

A Weekly Torah Reading for Our Tech Moment. Parashat Noach (Genesis 11:1–9) arrives just as the world rides a crest of AI ...

(JTA) — When Alyza Lewin became a bat mitzvah in 1977, the fact that she had a ritual ceremony at all was still relatively revolutionary in Orthodox circles. But she took the rite of passage a step ...

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