Rabbi Sacks points out that the Torah was given in the desert, before we conquered Eretz Yisrael and made it our homeland. ...

Torah, like the desert, must be open and accessible to all of Am Yisrael, with purity, humility, and patience, so that the ...

Can you claim Torah students as dependents for tax purposes? How exactly were the Jews counted? Dovid Taub explored these ...

The parsha opens with a census, an act that seems administrative on the surface, yet I find is profoundly therapeutic in its essence. The Torah is inviting us to examine our core beliefs that shape ...

A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: Rambam rules we follow only the Sages’ enumerated defects in Shechita, ignoring doctors even if survival >12 months is possible ...

God calls by name and appoints each one He chooses for His purpose. Nowhere in the Bible do we find anyone deciding for ...

The great Maya Angelou once wrote, “we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.” But are we? Are our similarities strong enough to bridge the distance we often feel from our fellow man? On a ...

To think that God descended to Sinai to give us a history lesson or dictate laws is to minimize Torah and to miss the real meaning of it. Last week, Jews around the world stayed up all night learning ...

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I’ve noticed a few schools encouraging the graduating class to create a time capsule. A newspaper headlining a major moment ...

A Torah scroll was dedicated at the Bnei Akiva Bar Kokhba branch in Yeruham in memory of Captain Itai Seif, a platoon ...