This year’s International Shluchim Conference reached an especially emotional peak as thousands of Shluchim from all corners ...

What if, when a fine young Ger or Giyoret appears on a shidduch résumé, the first reaction was quiet wonder: “This is someone ...

Just a few short weeks ago, on Shabbat, we read about Moshe: "He gazed, and there was a bush all aflame, yet the bush was not consumed.” (Parshat Shmot, Exodus, 3:2:) Moshe ponders how this is ...

During the summer of 2014 Nahal Infantry Brigade soldiers fought bravely in Gaza alongside other combat units, with many Nahal soldiers among those making the ultimate sacrifice for their country. The ...

Torah Scribe Jamie Shear in the Old City of Jerusalem. Not a few rabbinical eyebrows were raised last week in Israel when Rabbi Menachem Perl, head of the Tzomet Institute for Technology and Halacha, ...

Rabbi Lenny Sarko was told making a braille Sefer Torah while adhering to kosher laws was impossible. Challenge accepted. Four years later, Sarko produced the first braille Torah. Sarko is the rabbi ...

The fire broke out around 4:30 a.m. and had reached three alarms in about a half-hour The congregation building dates to the early 1920s. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places ...

San Jose’s Jewish community will welcome a new Torah scroll to Congregation Am Echad in Willow Glen on Sunday. To commemorate the rare occasion, the synagogue at 1504 Meridian Ave. is holding a ...

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“When Moshe would go out to the Tent, the entire people would stand up and remain standing … until he arrived at the Tent” (Shemos 33:8). The Medrash Tanchuma writes that we learn from here that one ...