Groups of traditional all-night learners commemorating Matan Torah, the receiving of the Torah at Sinai, are abundant. They assemble with song, dance, and delicious food.

Vendors sold traditional Jewish and Israeli cuisine. In tents marked “Hostage Square,” rows of chairs sat empty save for photos of the hostages and the exhortation “Bring them home now!” ...

Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape from destruction recorded in the Book of Esther. Haman, an early Hitler in ...

Only when there is silence, and the complete absence of ego, can the truth be heard, understood, and accepted. The Torah is the absolute and whole truth and can therefore only be given when there is a ...

The Jewish task is not to fear the real world but to enter and transform it, healing some of its wounds and bringing to places often shrouded in darkness fragments of Divine light.

So it is with all those fighting, both IDF soldiers and civilians, since the Hamas attack on Simchat Torah and the subsequent war on seven fronts (cf. Rambam, Laws of Kings 7:15).

Written in 1951, two years before he passed away, Rabbi Uziel’s essay You Shall Love Truth and Peace reflects Rabbi Uziel’s unifying vision for Israel.

A halakhic ruling was published Monday by leading decisors of Jewish law from major and influential Hasidic courts, reinforcing a firm prohibition against enlistment in the IDF. The rabbis state ...

Yes, it is difficult living here. Yet is my immense privilege to share in the hardship of our fellow Jews in Israel and to feel deeply a solidarity with them, even though this war is more ...

The word “probably” gets a major workout in “Bob Dylan: Jewish Roots, American Soil,” Harry Freedman’s new book made of equal parts passion and conjecture. The book’s central premise ...

While Magid is a highly regarded scholar of Jewish thought, his appointment to the new role has raised hackles among some Jewish observers for a critical stance he calls “counter-Zionism.” ...