The dream is simple: that every person who wants to read Torah, teach Torah, or hear Torah should be able to do so with ease, ...

Rabbi Elazar said: Be diligent in the study of the Torah; and know how to answer an apikores, and know before whom you toil, and that your employer is faithful, for He will pay you the reward of your ...

In the long history of Jewish survival, few ideas have caused more internal rot than the postwar fantasy that every Jewish man is meant to study Torah full-time. It is not a mitzvah — it is a ...

The night after my husband narrowly avoided being shot in the Pittsburgh synagogue where he is a rabbi I couldn’t sleep. I needed something to read, to keep my mind occupied — to keep it away from the ...

The study of Torah, when undertaken with humbleness and dedication, can lead one to a special encounter with HaKadosh Baruch ...

Nine years ago, while attending the United Jewish Communities’ General Assembly (GA) in Chicago, I had the privilege and pleasure of hearing Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herman Wouk — known for ...

In a telling pasuk in Devarim, it says, Lo meirubchem mikol ha’amim, I did not choose you, because you were the largest of all the nations – ki atem ha’m’at mikol ha’amim, because, to the contrary, ...

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(RNS) — It’s a perennial but repeatedly back-burnered issue in Israel: Should haredim (often called “ultra-Orthodox Jews”) who are studying religious texts full time be conscripted into military ...

From a yacht party to all-night study sessions, there’s no shortage of delightful ways to spend this two-day Jewish holiday Shavuot, the Jewish holiday that commemorates the giving and receiving of ...

Christmas Eve, known as Nittel Nacht to many, was traditionally a fearsome day for Jews. Now it’s an opportunity to spread kindness. (JTA) — In the modern era, holidays like Christmas and Easter are ...