At the centre of the shul (synagogue) is the holy ark. Over the front of the ark is a curtain. Open the curtains and there ...

Top rabbis and close relatives speak at an emotional launch at a Jerusalem hotel.The post Rabbi Riskin’s new book portrays ...

The Book of Leviticus (Sefer Vayikra), whose very name (“God called to Moses”) underscoring the Torah’s call to be in ...

It lacks the great narratives of the first two books and is full of rules and regulations ... term “kosher” did not refer to food in the Hebrew Bible; kosher meant something close to what ...

Two centuries after Hyman Hurwitz dedicated his book Elements of The Hebrew Language ‘To the Founders of the Jewish Academy at Highgate’, the volume has returned to north London. Hurwitz not only set ...

MITZVAH POWER ACADEMY empowers young children to take the lead doing mitzvot, good deeds, at home, in school, synagogue and ...

As I’m often chided over Passover, is this really representative of the Hebrew slave’s plight in history? Professor Nahum Sarna reminds us that matzah was not a new invention to the Hebrew slaves.

He replies, “Sunday? But that’s Simchas Torah.” Though Kilmer was not Jewish himself, his on-point pronunciation of the relatively obscure fall Jewish holiday — which celebrates the end ...