I grew up praying to a god in a language I did not understand. In particular, as an observant Conservative Jewish American (that is, “Conservative Jewish, not “conservative, Jewish”), I grew up ...

2023 was an awful year for Jewish unity in Israel. The tragic events of October 7th have brought some kind of temporary togetherness, but it is fragile. We must not go back to how things were. I study ...

The words of the Shema prayer, arguably Judaism’s most fundamental liturgical statement, are not generally associated with the art of magic. But the arrival of a 1,500-year-old silver armband ...

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“Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our G-d, the Lord is one.” These words are the supreme testimony of Jewish faith. Each word is worthy of careful study, but it is the first – the verb Shema – that ...

Lt. Col. Ofer Winter (L) vs. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Brigadier General (ret.) Ofer Winter, who was recently pushed out of the IDF, may be reinstated after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

הרב קוקצילום: אוסף התצלומים של צדוק בסן. The celebrated first Chief Rabbi of pre-state Israel, Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook (1865-1935) is recognized as being among the most important Jewish ...

As we emerge from Tisha b’Av and our annual three-week period of mourning the destruction and loss of our Holy Temples in Jerusalem, we are invigorated and inspired every year by Parashat Vaetchanan.

Eli Sharabi was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7th, and taken hostage by Hamas. Sharabi had never recited the Shema. Until he was in Gaza. Even though he was never a religious man ...

NORTHAMPTON — As the number of antisemitic incidents began to pile up for some Jewish students at Northampton High School last school year — the complaints were far-ranging, from using “Zionist” and ...

It would be reasonable to assume that a language that contains the verb “to command” must also contain the verb “to obey.” The one implies the other, just as the concept of a question implies the ...