It’s called ‘Va-Yechi’: And Jacob lived ….’. For, although it is about death, it’s also about life. Jacob lived until the age ...

There was a time when a swastika spray-painted on a building in Winnipeg would have been shocking in its rarity. Now it’s ...

The verb va-yach (“he struck”) is also significant. It shares its root with makot, the plagues. Moses strikes first; God ...

Driver's lawyer says suspect felt his life was in danger as demonstrators massed around bus; 14-year-old killed, three ...

Parasha Shemot teaches that antisemitism is a recurring human failure, but Jewish resilience is a recurring miracle. The ...

Living in a modern society does not reduce this obligation—it increases it. Precisely because so much around us changes, a ...

A durable, dogged, in-person, on-paper, public commitment to a local church is a necessary part of the Christian life.

COMMENTARY: Far from arbitrary punishments, the plagues of Egypt are presented in Exodus as divine signs meant to call ...

The Ten Plagues Then, Now, and at the End of the World provides a history of the interpretations of each of the 10 plagues in ...

Since 1989, through special government permissions, about 4,000 Bnei Menashe have been able to make aliyah, but just as many people have spent years, in some cases generations, attempting to move to ...

According to a Pew Research Center survey, only 52% of American Jews can read Hebrew. The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute is ...

The Democrats' chairman said lessons from Oslo and the Gaza disengagement must not be repeated, ruling out a rapid ...