This week’s Torah portion is Vayera: Genesis 18:1 – 22:24 The first Shabbat after daylight standard time always comes as a shock to the system, despite the fact that it occurs every year. Preparing to ...

Hundreds of activists from the Tzav 9 protest group gathered on Friday morning at the Kissufim Crossing on the Gaza border, without warning, to block aid trucks travelling to Gaza. For nearly three ...

Hundreds of Tzav 9 demonstrators blocked humanitarian aid trucks designated for the Gaza Strip at the Kerem Shalom crossing on Friday morning for the first time in several months. The organization ...

Dozens of aid trucks were seen on Monday morning at the Nitzana crossing on their way to Gaza. The trucks entered Gaza a day after two soldiers, Major Yaniv Kula and Staff sergeant Itay Yavetz, ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Parshat Behar/Bechukotei: Leviticus 25:1-27:34; Jeremiah 16:19-17:14. This Shabbat we again read a double parshah — Behar-Bechukotei — bringing us closer to the end of Leviticus. Often described as ...

The opposition on Sunday beat the coalition in a vote in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to extend the deadline for the government to issue new emergency call ups (known as Tzav 8 ...

At the opening of the Torah portion Tzav, the priests are commanded to begin each day by removing a portion of the ash that had accumulated on the altar and placing it next to the altar. This was ...

This coming Shabbat is a heavy one; besides being erev Pesach, it has a literally weighty name- Shabbat HA’GADOL- The (really) big Shabbos. Many reasons are given for this name- Here are a few: The ...

Parshat Yitro: Exodus 18:1-20:22; Isaiah 6:1-7:6; 9:5-6. The verses immediately preceding the Decalogue Revelation at Sinai are curious, to say the least. God and Moses enter a dialogue that appears ...

Blog ties weekly Torah portion with works of Yiddish writers For last week’s portion, the blog matches the story of Jacob’s daughter Dina with a poem about her by the poet Itsik Manger.