A young girl walks through the Old City of Jerusalem. There is a word that appears several times in Tanach with a haunting, resonant power. Another time, in the opening passage we read Tisha B’Av ...

His mother’s doctors did not soften the blow. They spoke in the measured, clinical tones of men accustomed to delivering bad news, but their words landed with crushing finality. The cancer had spread ...

Boruch had spent Pesach in Eretz Yisrael, including a relaxing Shabbos there afterwards. Before he traveled, his chavrusa, Avrumi, had approached him with a request. “You’ll be away the whole Yom Tov, ...

The Hebrew version is a palindrome. That’s the simplest thing about the word. The first and last Hebrew letters of the world are also palindromes. Now things are starting to get less than simple. The ...

No one should be surprised that Governor Josh Shapiro is subliminally blaming Israel for the United States going to war against Iran (“Et Tu, Shapiro? Penn Gov. Hints Israel Shaped U.S. Path to Iran ...

This idea connects directly with the experience at Har Sinai of the atzilei bnei Yisrael (the distinguished ones from among the nation), a group which our Sages associate with Nadav and Avihu. There ...

Before Aharon the Kohen Gadol was allowed to enter the Holy of Holies to request forgiveness for the sins of the Jews, he had to receive exoneration for his own sin of enabling the building of the ...

Answer: From your question, some readers might mistakenly conclude that Pirkei Avot is studied only between Pesach and Shavuot. Such is not the case. In fact, the study of Pirkei Avot through the ...

Tzvee Zahavy is a triathlon swimmer, a competitive golfer, a prolific author of books on Judaism, a prize-winning professor with a PhD from Brown University, a compassionate rabbi with semicha from ...