Rabbi David Fohrman is the dean of Aleph Beta Academy. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University, and was a lead writer and editor for ArtScroll's Talmud translation project. Aleph Beta creates videos ...

srael has made huge advances in water technology and infrastructure. What can the world learn from Israel on how we manage this precious resource? Eve Harow interviews Michelle Baruch, an expert on ...

Jewish groups including the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Louisville and the National Council of Jewish Women’s Louisville Section ...

Usually when Moshe taught Torah, he first instructed Aharon, then Aharon’ s sons, then the leaders of Israel and only then the general population of Israel. Here, however, when it came to teaching the ...

The Court of Appeals has affirmed the New York Appellate Division Second Department’s decision upholding a Reform temple’s right to fire a teacher who had written an anti-Zionist blog post. The ...

It is clear from the halachic literature that Shulamit and Shlomit are two distinct names. In fact, Rabbi Eliyahu Mizrachi (in his responsa §67) explicitly writes that if one wrote the name Shlomit ...

Dafna Filshteiner, 12, holds a 3,500-year-old Egyptian scarab she found during a family hike. A 12-year-old girl hiking with her family stumbled upon a 3,500-year-old Egyptian amulet, the Israel ...

The Israel Police arrested two illegal Arabs from the Palestinian Authority who crossed into Tel Aviv from Samaria with IDF uniforms, following a report they were carrying “suspicious luggage” at a ...

David with a young cancer patient in the hospital, bringing goodies and a warm smile. Many parents who lose a child to serious illness count themselves fortunate to be able to simply go on and live ...

The oil to be used for the Menorah had to be clear without sediments. It was taken from the first drop of the olive. The Menorah, symbolizes the light of the Torah. The Torah lights up the world. The ...

Chave and Mel Heftler, aleihem ha’shalom. My friend Chave Gartenberg Heftler passed away on Ta’anit Esther one year ago. We met as young girls the summer we turned 11. Chave’s parents, the Gartenbergs ...

It is one of the few mitzvos that encompasses nearly the entire body. Each morning, it wraps around me like an embrace—just me and Hashem, hidden away from the world for a few sacred moments. I kiss ...