Hidden away in this week’s reading is a single tiny verse [Genesis 12:6] with implications that should take our breath away. During Abraham’s day, we are told, “the Canaanites were then in the land.” ...

Parshas Miketz, which often coincides with Chanukah, is filled with many deep and profound ideas. I’d like to touch on one of them, namely the discussion about Yosef and his marriage to Asnath. As we ...

This week, hundreds of thousands of Israelis will journey to Meron on Lag Ba’Omer, the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, author of the Holy Zohar. The bonfires of Lag Ba’Omer symbolize the secrets ...

When life feels like a treadmill, and each of us just a face in the crowd, mitzvah observance may easily become rote, tedious ...

Let me explore a fantastical and enigmatic story in the Talmud. Some 1900 years ago, during the first century CE, only a few years after the destruction of the second Temple by the Romans in the year ...

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The Torah is Israel’s “secret weapon against all enemies” and “no power in the world” can stop the Jewish people from studying it, Aryeh Deri, the chairman of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, declares.

This was the graduation address delivered by graduating senior Ariela Zweiback as the commencement speaker at de Toledo High School on June 4, 2020. Perhaps you have heard of the Greatest Generation.

Six intense seasons of the Russian spy drama “The Americans” on FX culminated in a brilliant payoff. The series finale provided the audience with a perfect ending — and a deep Torah secret about ...