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Each Torah portion includes a line-by-line analysis, with Shoff sometimes bringing in multiple sources to provide insights.

According to Hasidic philosophy, events all around us contain powerful life lessons. The Hamas invasion of October 7 and ...

Originally a Hebrew rabbinic tale, its Yiddish translation appeared in various textbooks of the Yiddish afternoon schools ...

He takes the reader on a dazzling historical tour of all those before and after Maharal who objected to the second class status of the study of Tanach and the monopoly that Gemara held over the hours ...

The commandment to build a sukkah using waste has a surprising dual meaning: It encourages us to seek more balance in our ...

The Kitvuni Fellowship provides funding, mentorship, and professional support to the women, who are part of a year-long three ...

Every seven years, immediately after the Sabbatical year, on the first of the intermediate days of Sukkot, the Israelites ...

If Jews in the midst of battle in Sinai, persecuted by the Soviets in Moscow, or surrounded by death at Auschwitz celebrated ...

Readers are appalled about a Boynton Beach writer’s view that Donald Trump has “common sense” and “compassion.” ...

Our intense focus on the High Holidays has made the Jewish calendar feel top heavy and front loaded, writes Rabbi Niles ...