This is a moment in history when antisemitism – and support for and enabling of terrorists seeking the genocide of the Jews – is not only rising; it’s been normalized.

But over the past 30 years, cross-sectional and longitudinal studies have demonstrated that personality traits evolve ...

The title Toldot means offspring, and begins with the birth of the two very dissimilar twins, Yacov and Esav. Immediately the ...

Our last thoughts before sleep and our first thoughts upon waking have a powerful impact on our minds. This may be why ...

The modern reader should understand the word hosanna to be an exclamation of praise directed especially at the promised ...

Arnold Eisen, former chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, writes a book facing the "questions of what I actually ...

For several years, I worked as a hospital chaplain where I met patients at various stages of their medical journeys. Some ...

it becomes evident that the nature of life and the definition of “being alive” is not clearly definable. Which leads us to our next question: As we will see in several Torah sources ...

According to the World Jewish Congress, the term “Nakba,” meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic, was coined in reference to the Holocaust, known in the Hebrew-speaking world as the “Shoah,” ...

Commonly Confused Words: Have you ever used the word access where you should have used excess? Or Have you got confused about which to use-affect or effect? Well, don’t worry as this is not unusual.

Some argue that there is no ethics separate from Torah, meaning that if the Torah encourages or permits an act, it is ethical, and if the Torah prohibits or discourages it, it is unethical.

“One wrong word from him can mean trouble for the whole Iranian Jewish community. He has responsibility for the welfare of many people,” she said. Beni Sabti, a Persian Israeli researcher at ...