Both Rashi and Radak define the chasidim as “the righteous legions of Israel” going out to battle. They place their ...

The Decalogue, which most people mistakenly call “The Ten Commandments,” is contained in the fifth Exodus biblical portion, Yitro, which Moses repeats with many changes in the fifth chapter of ...

Dr. Tzvi Novick points out in an insightful article in the Times of Israel (May 25,2023) entitled “Standing Under Sinai: On the Origins of a Coerced Covenant” that a famous rabbinical Midrash ...

The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love ...

Armed and Divided Shabbat Thought Torah Portion Beshalach 2025 (revised from previous versions) In the Torah portion this ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

UVA students selected objects for display and crafted museum text for The Fralin Museum of Art’s newest exhibition.

When Oleg Rostovtsev hovered between life and death after a serious operation last April, he asked friends and family to do ...

At Beth Midrash Harav B’Nai Jacob, an Orthodox synagogue in Northeast Philadelphia, the community that members have fostered ...

There have been many mass marches in history, and they have been turned into material for myths and mystification and constitute a trove of wealth for the imagination. Mass gatherings of people stir ...

Barclays Global Investors and BlackRock Investment Management have finalised their post-merger executive structure in Australia, with long-standing BlackRock chief executive Maurice O’Shannassy ...