You may think Juneteenth is, at its core, a holiday intended primarily for Black Americans. But it is more than that. It is of profound

This past February, at the start of the year leading up to my becoming a bar mitzvah, I was sitting with my parents in our

Join us in learning more about the many gemachs available to the communities surrounding us. How did these organizations get started? The gemachs are a

I thought it would be interesting to discuss and provide excerpts from this work. Herzl was not the first to write in the post-Emancipation period

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Suddenly, Adam and Eve heard Hashem moving about in the garden of Eden and they ran to hide in the shrubbery. Hashem called out to

סדר מתן הגט מהבעל לאשתו או באמצאות שליחים (Gittin 23) Ideally, the get ceremony should be conducted with the husband and wife in the same

Rav Yerucham Levovitz—the legendary mashgiach of the Mir Yeshiva—was a unique scion of the mussar tradition of deep self-analysis, inner work and moral refinement. A

אני מאמין באמונה שלימה שהבורא יתברך שמו הוא בורא ומנהיג לכל הברואים והוא לבדו עשה עושה ויעשה לכל המעשים (Rambam to Mishna Sanhedrin 10, 13

There is a fundamental disagreement between fifth-generation Tannaim, Rabbi Eleazar (ben Shamua) and Rabbi Meir, about what aspect of writing a bill of divorce needs

דַּבֵּר אֶל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְאָמַרְתָּ אֲלֵהֶם וְעָשׂוּ לָהֶם צִיצִת עַל כַּנְפֵי בִגְדֵיהֶם לְדֹרֹתָם וְנָתְנוּ עַל צִיצִת הַכָּנָף פְּתִיל תְּכֵלֶת: (במדבר טו:לח) Kriyas Shema that we

Parshat Shelach The saga of Yehoshua’s spies and their encounter with the resident(s) of Yericho that is read for this week’s haftarah is a well-known