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 ...
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.
Abraham shows un that one must act to save himself, but also pray for G-d's salvation in case it does not work out.
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, ...
Drawing from 5,000 years of Jewish tradition and folklore, The Writer is Percy Jackson refracted through Torah.
It was the task of Avraham and his progeny to pick up where Adam and Noach did not succeed and to lead the world back to Hashem via a restoration of the pristine state of affairs under which the world ...
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.
After all, Avraham Avinu had been the first human to anticipate G-D’s Torah and observe it centuries in advance of it being bequeathed to Am Yisrael (see Gen 26:5). It remains for us to explain ...
The incoming president's Jewish fans cite domestic, foreign and Jewish issues as their reasons for supporting him.
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 ...