Torah, The

With Simchat Torah on the horizon, Jews around the world are gearing up to begin the annual study cycle of the Five Books of Moses. This year’s learning will be enhanced by a new series, The Inside Story: A Chassidic Perspective on Biblical Events, Encoun...

Alana Halperin says it’s not unusual to discover a swastika or other hurtful symbols scrawled or carved on school property at Lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs, Fla., a suburb north of Orlando. “It just happens sometimes,” says the 16-year-ol...

Solar energy pioneer Yaacov (Jack) Hanoka, who held patents for 56 of his inventions and was known for his passion and optimism in finding alternative energy sources to fossil fuels, passed away at the age of 75.

Velvel Greene, chair of epidemiology public health and professor emeritus at Ben-Gurion University and director of the Lord Jacobovitz Center for Jewish Medical Ethics, discusses science & religion.

On Sept. 17, Galit Hasidim, a mother of four from the Israeli coastal town of Ashdod, sat near a sofer, a ritual scribe, as he inscribed two letters in a new Torah scroll. Together with her 18-year-old son, Eliya, she dedicated these letters to the memory...

Michelle L. was a typical almost-12-year-old girl, eagerly anticipating her bat mitzvah. As the big day drew nearer, all she could think of was her friends and family coming together to celebrate her joyous milestone. Friday arrived and the synagogue quic...

For the first time in modern history—and perhaps even longer than that—two sitting wartime presidents wrote letters in a new Torah scroll that will be dedicated to peace and unity, among the Jewish people. The scroll, which will eventually be housed in Be...

Sometimes, the deepest and most important messages are found in the simplest of packages. Bearing just the word “One” on its cover, a small booklet of 40 pages released in the United Kingdom has been widely shared, bringing with it a vision for a universa...

The Jewish library was recently enriched by a gem of a book, Eclectic Thoughts of Meaning, authored by Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan and published by Ktav. As its name suggests, the 416-page book contains a little more than 200 brief essays addressing topics of int...

The world suffered a devastating blow this past November when Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, and a brilliant scholar and teacher, tragically passed away at the age of 72. Since his untimely death, there has been an ou...