Ibn Ezra (Shemos 2:3) uses a similar idea to explain why Hashem orchestrated Moshe’s upbringing in Pharaoh’s palace. In ...

Early Christian leaders recognized that the continued strength of Jewish tradition posed an existential challenge to their theological claims. If the Jews, the original recipients of divine revelation ...

Eviatar began her rabbinical studies in 2023 and hopes to be ordained in the spring of 2028. She is taking the five-year rabbinical course from the Academy for Jewish Religion (AJR).

He says that his prayers for a good landing in Israel were answered with a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.

Plans to move a replica of Noah’s Ark to Israel or South Korea have been canceled. The ship will now stay in the Netherlands, ...

You must assist him even at the expense of helping a righteous person who also needs aid – so that you may overcome the ...

I was delighted to discuss my new book The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West – and Why Only They Can ...

Question: As I came into the synagogue, they were about to recite Keri’at Shema. I had as yet not put on my tefillin. What should one do in that situation?A ReaderVia E-mail ...

This week marks the fifth yahrzeit of my friend and colleague, Rabbi Fred Elias. To mark this milestone, I reunited with ...

MISHPATIM: The prohibition against boiling a kid in its mother’s milk never made sense to this rabbi — until a party about 20 ...

Two newly ordained Renewal rabbis from Oakland are bolstering the movement’s 50-year-old legacy in the East Bay.

The statement “an eye for an eye” is in this week’s Torah portion, Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1–24:18). At first glance, this ...