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Part of the hurt comes from the fact that we can’t imagine such hatred. And that is because Jews, through the generations, train their children that human life is so costly one should only murder as a ...

Rabbi Daniel Bouskila is the international director of the Sephardic Educational Center.

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 ...