Every shabbos, Jews in synagogues of all denominations hear the cantor, rabbi or a layperson chant that week’s Torah portion ...

For the previous Hanukkah essays, click here. For a film about Rabbi Shapira zts"l, click here. The Greeks’ main battle was in the spiritual realm: “To cause the Jewish people to forget Hashem’s Torah ...

To read the first article in this series, Hanukkah - The celebration of the Oral Law, click here. Note: Footnotes have been omitted due to programming restraints. In the time of the second Beit ...

For English speaking Jews, Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook (called in Israel HaRav) has been an elusive magnet. It is ...

“Anyone who has never read the entire Chumash with Rashi is simply not Jewishly literate,” said Rabbi David Hartman, with whom I was studying 14 years ago at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.

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