Atara Arbesfeld is a student at Yeshiva University studying communications and freelance writer. Rivka Mordechai has a B.A. in English with honors from Touro College and is currently the ...

Rabbi Elchanan Shoff is the Rabbi of Beis Knesses at Faircrest Heights in Los Angeles. He is known for his dynamic and engaging teaching style and many classes and programs. His shul, on the edge of ...

With great excitement, Purim is rapidly approaching! So, as we take out our copies of Megillas Esther and the many amazing commentaries, I’d like to share with you a powerful observation I once ...

Roughly five hundred years before the Purim story, history entered a new phase. For the first time, large multi-regional empires emerged. In the late tenth and ninth centuries BCE, Assyria rose to ...

Recently, I merited acquiring a treasure: the first Tanach printed in Amsterdam, produced in 1630 at the press of Menasseh ben Israel. In 1626, he established the first Hebrew printing press in ...

It was a palace of beauty and a house of dignity, meant to convey the luster of the Shechinah. It was also highly distinctive. Each article of the Mishkan was crafted for a functional purpose, yet ...

Israel Mizrahi is the owner of Mizrahi Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY, and JudaicaUsed.com. He can be reached at JudaicaUsed@gmail.com.

Rabbi David Fohrman is the dean of Aleph Beta Academy. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University, and was a lead writer and editor for ArtScroll's Talmud translation project. Aleph Beta creates videos ...