Eight hundred boys, Hungarian Jews aged between 13 and 17, were marched in driving rain from Block 11 at Auschwitz-Birkenau ...

Unlike so many superheroes, Moses’ success doesn’t rely on strength alone, but on his willingness to visibly lean on others.

On that day, a great shofar shall be sounded, and those lost in the land of Assyria and those who were cast off in the land ...

How fitting it is that, in our annual cycle of Torah reading, some part of the Exodus narrative always coincides with the ...

When my children were born, I assumed teaching them Torah would be easy. After all, I have a PhD in Talmud and am married to a rabbi. I worried about plenty of things—sleep schedules, tantrums, and ...

That phrase isn’t about trembling at divine thunder. As Martin Buber brilliantly puts it, “fear of God” means deep, unshakable respect for human life — the very respect glaringly absent in Amalek, the ...

The arson of a synagogue in Mississippi recalls incidents from the Torah and from throughout our history, writes.

In his new book, Stav Appel points out Jewish symbols, objects and references in one of the earliest tarot decks.

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For centuries, at least for two millennia, so many great European Torah scholars memorialized their thoughts on sunless and snowy days. Perhaps some did so by daylight but more likely, those who also ...

When firefighters cleared Beth Israel Synagogue after an arson attack this month, the library floor was slick with water and ...

The adventures of Jacob and his children have served as a throughline in the genesis of America – from abolition to ...