Explore the intricate layers of Jewish history and its connections to the broader narrative of world events and identities.

Jewish tradition honors Joseph as Yosef HaTzaddik — Joseph the Righteous One — precisely because of his capacity to change: ...

which appears close to the beginning of Parshat Shoftim (Devarim 16:20). Through repeating the word ‘tzedek’, the Torah here wishes to highlight how important justice is. We should go to the ends of ...

As previously mentioned, all ten of the sefirot are found within each individual sefirah (recursively), demonstrating total ...

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In this week’s Torah portion Hukat, Miriam dies and the people complain bitterly that there’s no water (Numbers 20:3-5). God tells him to take his rod and order the rock to produce water. But Moses, ...

Is American Democracy, our tradition of free elections and our advancement as an enlightened society being compromised by big money in politics and an aversion to facts and rational discourse? I ...

And you complained in your tents and said: "because Hashem hates us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Emori to destroy us." (Dvarim 1:27) This is related ...

Cory Booker lambasted Donald Trump’s comments that American Jews would be “disloyal” for voting for Democrats in what amounted to an off-the-cuff d’var Torah, or sermon, while on the campaign trail in ...