The ritual may seem irrational, but it's actually an example of Judaism at its best because it invites us to reenact the past ...

Mi Polin, a company in Warsaw, specializes in reproducing traces of the traditional Jewish prayer containers pried off door frames during World War II.

Take, for example, the “Sotah ritual,” a test the Torah outlines for women accused of adultery. They are supposed to drink an inky liquid, and if their stomach distends, they are found guilty ...

In his Mishneh Torah (Laws of Repentance 10:2) he states: ... And how should we explain the specific reward for the mitzvah of tzedakah that the Torah outlines, ...

A new enlistment outline agreed to Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein will reportedly delay several key sanctions on draft dodgers to which the ultra-Orthodox ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fractious right-wing coalition has survived an opposition-backed bid to dissolve ...

It is in Genesis 27 that Isaac is preparing to pass the torch of Jewish leadership to his son, Esau — who, as the Torah makes clear, is entirely unfit for the role. His twin brother, Jacob ...

The Talmud (Pesachim 109a) teaches that there is no true celebration without meat and wine (apologies to my vegetarian friends). In Leviticus Chapter 23, the Torah outlines the various Festivals ...

The Torah was given in the wilderness, in a swirl of smoke and fire. According to a midrash , God chose to give the Torah in the middle of nowhere precisely so that no landowner or sovereign could ...

A Long Island firefighter ran into a burning Chabad to save a sacred Sefer Torah from the flames on Wednesday -- as members of the local Jewish community raced to the scene in prayer.