Shavuot is the festival when Jews eat cheesecake and celebrate “matan Torah,” literally, “the giving of the Torah” at Mount Sinai. It conjures up images of the tablets being handed to Moses in the ...

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Rabbi Elchanan Shoff, the leader of Beis Knesses Los Angeles in Pico-Robertson and a local educator, is known for thinking outside the box when it comes to Torah learning. Whether he is giving a ...

The mitzvot are acts that we perform to refine ourselves and achieve our own potential, while the true object of our mental striving is to understand the acts that He performs and in what ways His gre ...

Thanks to AI, we can access sacred texts with one click, but joining the covenant of the Jewish people demands more of us ...

(JTA) — In a new exhibit opening Tuesday, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., has unveiled what it says is the oldest Jewish book ever discovered. According to the museum’s dramatic claim, ...

Beyond cheesecake and tradition, Shavuot carries a layered identity that links Sinai, agriculture, and Jewish history from ...

(JTA) — When I spoke with novelist Elizabeth Graver in August about her novel “Kantika” — inspired by her own Turkish Jewish family — I asked her how she managed to breathe life into a tired genre ...

Leviticus gets a bad rap. It lacks the great narratives of the first two books and is full of rules and regulations. Many of these instructions (Lev 1-10) deal with the different types of sacrifices ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Where once ethnicity was a subtle or implicit characteristic of the highbrow publication (Partisan Review, ...

Simchat Torah. It’s the Jewish holiday that comes after all the important Jewish holidays — Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot — this time of year. At the end of one Torah-reading cycle and the ...