Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, spiritual leader of the Shas party, suggests he wouldn't count Rabbi Tamir Granot in a minyan, or prayer ...

As we begin a new Torah cycle, Chayenu is introducing four exciting new features to enrich your weekly study, and two of them ...

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An incredible event of Torah study and achievement was marked with the Chag HaSemicha celebration hosted by Machon LeHoraa ...

As sorry as God was that He had made mankind, it is surely true that, when He covenanted with Noah, He knew what pain lay ...

In a telling pasuk in Devarim, it says, Lo meirubchem mikol ha’amim, I did not choose you, because you were the largest of all the nations – ki atem ha’m’at mikol ha’amim, because, to the contrary, ...

“He found them in a desert; among the chaos of shouting beasts. He surrounded them and made them understanding. He protected them like the apple of His eye” (Devarim 32:10). The Netziv, Rabbi Naftali ...

Among the songs that I remember from my parents’ collection of phonograph records of Yiddish folk music was a melancholy and ...

(RNS) — It’s a perennial but repeatedly back-burnered issue in Israel: Should haredim (often called “ultra-Orthodox Jews”) who are studying religious texts full time be conscripted into military ...

Never did I imagine, as a preppy high school student at a Protestant boarding school, that my spiritual journey would lead me to serious Torah study. At my bat mitzvah, despite several years of Hebrew ...

The sotah laws (Numbers 5:11–31) may explain a troublesome comment made by Rabbi Eliezer in the Talmud: “Whoever teaches his daughter Torah teaches her tiflut [sometimes translated as ‘obscenity’]” ...