Eden Dawi is the older sister of Ro’i Dawi, who was killed last year together with 10 other soldiers when their armored personnel carrier was

זכותה של בת לרשת; Bava Batra 110a, 115a and 139b The Jewish Law of Inheritance provides that those heirs, whom the Torah deems to be

Parshat Chayei Sarah is unusual in that it devotes an inordinate amount of space to Avraham’s servant rearticulating to Rivka’s family the instructions he received

Our forefather Avraham did not have an easy life. From his earliest days, Avraham was a monotheist in a hostile polytheistic world. Rashi writes that

When a famous person passes away, any newspaper of record will try to capture the life and accomplishments of that person in a news article

Our Matriarch Sarah is eternally recognized as a pious woman, renowned for her hospitality, generosity, and beauty. By every measure, the well-known quote “Behind every

There is an image that haunts us across the millennia, fraught with emotion. It is the image of a man and his son walking side-by-side,

You may have noticed various practices regarding whether the sefer Torah should be opened or closed when reciting the bracha. Let us explore how these

Avraham’s journey introduced two fundamental traditions. For nearly 2,000 years, Hashem had seemed remote and withdrawn from humanity. Dwelling in the heavens, He rarely conversed

There are very few feelings in life that leave us more challenged, hurt and insecure than the feeling we get from being ignored. Part of

Parshat Vayeira “ … V’Torat chesed al l’shona.” The events we read of in this week’s haftarah—a selection from the fourth perek in Melachim Bet—bear

During my first six years of marriage, I lived in a neighborhood in Yerushalayim called Maalot Dafna, near East Jerusalem. Very early each morning I