Why are two Torah portions read together on certain weeks?

Chabad is nothing if not well-organized. Each year, they release a set of uniform lesson plans to literally hundreds of ...

Yesterday, around the world, we Jews observed Tisha B’Av, a day of grieving the historical destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, ...

“To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting America’s origins in a slavery economy is patriotism a’ la carte.” A recent ...

Hi everyone – I am back from Israel! Hope you have been enjoying all the amazing guest posts while I ...

The Conservative movement's creation of this scroll is the latest attempt in contemporary Judaism to create a liturgy for Yom Hashoah.

I was sitting in synagogue beside a beautiful, ornate, wood carved mechitzah when I saw something I had never noticed ...

Israel, likened to a barren woman, is promised countless children.

When I was growing up, I used to listen to records of GI Joe or Sci Fi stories that came ...

Relating to the despair the ancient Israelites felt in the wake of the Temple's destruction is no easy feat.