Standing at the crossroads, the Torah reminds us that hatred of the Jew has never been cured by Jewish self-erasure. It has ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each parent’s and child’s personality, needs, and circumstance vary so widely.

In Vayishlach, this week’s Torah portion, the third patriarch’s name gets changed during a famous encounter. Or does it?

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 ...

I want to share two very different stories of gratitude in honor of Thanksgiving. The first comes from the Torah portion we ...

It was such an honor to represent the Jewish community of Rural NE Arizona at the annual International Conference of Chabad ...

First of all, both should be every day! Honor your father and mother is a very important commandment- and it is considered ...

'Divrei HaLev': A renowned Talmudist rabbi's weekly Torah portion lessons - review Rabbi Halivni’s magnum opus is 'Mekorot Umesorot' ('Sources and Traditions'), a monumental 10-volume, source-critical ...

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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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Main Street in downtown Buffalo is closed to pedestrian and vehicle traffic from Huron Street to Mohawk Street. City officials says the shutdown is due to emergency shoring work on a ...