A significant expression of their differing worldviews appears in their attitudes toward wealth – a perspective that ...

When Ari Shell reads his Torah portion at his bar mitzvah on Saturday, Jan. 17, he’ll be stepping into Jewish adulthood with ...

Thank you, Jacob. For what, you might ask? For reminding us never to miss a chance to do good, to say a kind word, to act with intention while we still have the gift of “now.” In one simple act, Jacob ...

While reading Parshat Vayishlach this year, I was struck by the imbalance between speech and silence and what it suggests ...

What am I supposed to pray for? Is it “wrong” to ask G-d for something as ordinary as a good day at work, an easier month ...

This week’s Torah portion, Vayishlach, deposits us into the dramatic ongoing narrative of Jacob’s life, as he prepares to ...

If we were truly aware of the power embedded in our words, in casual conversation, in a sentence spoken in anger or sarcasm, we would be far more cautious.

Ultra-Orthodox activists and lawmakers on Wednesday raged against what they described as a “wave of arrests” by the IDF of yeshiva students who ignored enlistment orders and are evading military ...

Every Shabbos, Jews in synagogues of all denominations hear the cantor, rabbi or a layperson chant that week’s Torah portion from an open scroll. But Yiddish scholar Sheva Zucker says you don’t need ...

On Sukkot, we are explicitly commanded to be joyful: “And You Shall Rejoice in Your Festival–ve-samachta be-chagecha.” This is the only holiday where such a command appears. But the question arises: ...

This week’s Torah portion includes a line that seems surprising in context. Describing the mitzvah of ma’aser sheni – the second tithe that a farmer brings to Jerusalem to eat in holiness – the Torah ...

(RNS) — The Jewish attitude toward foreign-born people, who often have risked their lives to come here, legally or otherwise, is one of mercy and concern. (RNS) — No one knows who wrote the Jewish ...