T his week the Torah introduces us to “Abraham our Father.” If Abraham is “our” father, the father of the entire Jewish people, he is my father. Having studied Abraham’s life for decades now, I have ...

This Torah portion, Lech Lecha, shows us we must keep advocating for justice and peace in world that seems to be spinning out ...

Jewish Unforgettable Ladies Interested in Eating Together (JULIETs) will host Rabbi Jonathan Rudnick, the community chaplain for Jewish Family Services, for a conversation titled “12 Tribes, 1 People.

What happens when “an Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, a Sephardic Chief Rabbi and a future Nobel Prize winning author walk into a café ...

In the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham argues with God. Hearing the cities will be destroyed for the depravity of the ...

Baruch Thaler, a longtime Crown Heights resident who shared his love for the Rebbe and the Rebbe's teachings with many, passed away after an illness.

Eighty-six years ago this week, a series of pogroms took place in Germany and Austria. More than 1,000 synagogues were burned, their pews destroyed; sacred Torah scrolls and holy books ...

The Torah instructs us to reconnect with the essence of our souls by leaving behind "your land," which represents our ...

The goal of this column is to help you think about the spectrum of a topic in Torah and see the truth within every opinion of the sugya.

God reveals Himself to Abraham in this week’s Torah reading (Genesis Ch. 17, verse 1) with the name “Shadai” (letters Shin, Daled, Yud). Centuries later, when God reveals Himself to Moses in Egypt, ...