When the Torah was given at Mount Sinai, the Jews famously said, “Naaseh v’Nishmah.” We will do and we will listen. Sforno, the Italian Torah commentator explains that the response indicates that the ...

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The week long holiday of Succot is one of the three Jewish pilgrimage feasts - in the old days there was mass pilgrimage to Jerusalem - and Jews are remembering their origins in style. At the end of ...

It’s always instructive to listen to what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says in Hebrew, to Israelis — and not just what he says in English to heads of state and journalists. His comments shortly ...