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Moses is instructed by G-d to go with Aaron and 'speak to the rock before their eyes and then it will give its waters (v 8).' ...
Family photos, cherished sacred books, children’s toys and many more items create a collage like portrait of Jewish ...
The ancient sources implying Queen Zenobia converted to Judaism are possibly accurate,” Haggai Olshanetsky, of University of Warsaw, told JNS.The post Third-century queen, target of Syrian government, ...
A tractate concerning Jewish monetary law from the Babylonian Talmud, scribed in 1721 by a 12-year-old Amschel Moses ...
Algorithms reward extremes — the flashy, the provocative, the viral — not the nuanced or the complex. Judaism will suffer for ...
Schools stayed open despite IDF Home Front Command shuttering all education facilities amid missile danger from Iran; ...
It brings an end a years-long legal battle over the state’s authority to govern the curriculum of religious schools.
Whoever destroys a single life, it is as if they have destroyed the entire world. Whoever saves a single life, it is as if they have saved the entire world. (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 37a) ...
Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape from destruction recorded in the Book of Esther. Haman, an early Hitler in ...
Out of all the scripture and poetry and midrash that fills Jewish history, all the mysticism and folktales, all the prophecy and piety, all the humor and skepticism, for me one of the most moving ...