My son has a hard road ahead, but the depths of his friendships and the breadth of our new support network have already ...

Conservative/Masorti Judaism’s first official representative to the World Zionist Organization, Rabbi Joseph Wernik, ...

We come to chase away the darkness. In our hands are fire and light. Everyone is a little light. All of us together are a ...

When I got home, I heard the devastating news about Captain Omer Neutra, a 21-year-old lone soldier who had immigrated to Israel from the US to join the army. He was killed in combat on October 7, and ...

We may borrow from the approach of the Noam Elimelech (Shemos Bo 15) that we saw in blog post psychology of daf 154, whereby ...

Palestinian leaders have rejected, ignored, or sabotaged every offer to have a state of their own for one reason and one ...

In these small acts of kindness, in these quiet celebrations of tradition, in these spontaneous connections between souls, I ...

Leah’s tears are often misunderstood. Tradition calls her eyes weak, but I see strength in those tears, a fierce softening of ...

I left Israel knowing that this trip achieved what I had hoped: Avie and Mila now carry Israel in their hearts. They’ve begun ...

“Jewish prayer incorporates b’rakhot, benedictions, designed to sanctify, thus to grant a deep spiritual dimension, to ...

The Radak looks at it differently, and says, that it’s precisely due to any downfalls that he bestows the blessings that he ...

American Jews who care about Israel have a huge problem: Recent survey data shows that a majority of young people between the ...