The Stele of Merneptah was discovered in 1896 at Thebes. It is dated to his 5th year and refers to “Israel” as one of the

Due to the invention of the steamboat, Americans were finally able to travel to Europe and the Mideast starting around the middle of the 19th

The story of how the Jews organized themselves and began to return to Israel is rarely told these days. I will try. In 1880 there

Many of us have been reciting Psalm 142 regularly. Verse 4 has: “be-orach זו ahalech….” That Hebrew word is pronounced “zu.” (The vav has a

Since many of us are reciting these chapters daily, I thought I would offer some insights. 121:1 הרים: Why is the author of this psalm

Recently my daughter gave birth to her fourth child and she and her husband gave him the name “Chaim Bentzion.” That second name was the

Today we all assume that the name of the holiday was always “Chanukah.” (We only fight about its spelling!) The truth is that there are

I recently came across Rabbi Haim Jachter’s fascinating book: “Bridging Traditions: Demystifying Differences Between Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews” (2021). I am going to base this

Since we are all inundated with mentions of “Palestinian refugees,” I thought it would be useful to reiterate some background. On the Origin of the

In that famous verse in Toledot (25:22), we are told: “va-yitrotzetzu (ויתרצצו) ha-banim be-kirbah.” What does that first word mean? ArtScroll’s Stone Chumash translates this