Tsofnat Paneach “one who explains what is hidden” — This was said about Yosef, and it is one of the missions of Mashiach ben ...

Hidden away in this week’s reading is a single tiny verse [Genesis 12:6] with implications that should take our breath away. During Abraham’s day, we are told, “the Canaanites were then in the land.” ...

A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: When you borrow a Sefer Torah and it gets damaged, are you liable like any other borrower, or does the mitzvah of lending Torah change ...

Let me explore a fantastical and enigmatic story in the Talmud. Some 1900 years ago, during the first century CE, only a few years after the destruction of the second Temple by the Romans in the year ...

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Mordechai (Mark) Halawa will speak on Friday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m., during the Shabbat evening meal, and again on Saturday, Feb. 21, at 8 p.m., both at the Union County Torah Center in Westfield. In his ...

The Torah is Israel’s “secret weapon against all enemies” and “no power in the world” can stop the Jewish people from studying it, Aryeh Deri, the chairman of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, declares.

Hillel’s Jewish Learning Fellowship is an eye opener for thousands of Jewish students about their own tradition. When Sophie Tannenbaum, a senior at the University of Pittsburgh, found herself ...