The Derech Chaim, a commentary on repentance, explains that the human being has a different perspective of the world than God ...

Returning to the Beginning The Torah teaches that creation has a purpose ... Shirel was a remarkable young woman, and shortly before her death, she discovered Tomer Devorah.

Walk me like a palindrome forward to our common home, looking backwards at the past, thinking our love couldn’t last, though it’s lasted long enough for ...

The goal of this column is to help you think about the spectrum of a topic in Torah and see the truth within every opinion of the sugya.

How can we dance again? It’s not just a question for Simchat Torah; it’s a question for every moment we face after loss, after tragedy, after the world splits wide open.

First, he quotes HaRav Tzemach Dovid ... their moral obligations according to the intuitive sensitivities of the Torah prior to its formalization into a fixed set of laws. If a man has two ...

Meet Yael Kanarek. The artist behind Toratah, a gender-swapped rewrite of the Hebrew Bible, is coming to the Bay Area.

Rabbi Yitzchak reasons that G-d began the Torah this way to address a future question: “When the nations of the world say to the Jewish people, ‘You are thieves; you conquered the land of Israel from ...

On the first anniversary of the ... a special liturgy was composed to be said before the morning prayers. It is called 6:29 [the time when the Simhat Torah massacre began],” Marx added.

This essay was adapted from the final chapter of the author’s new book, For Such a Time as This: on Being Jewish ... open up to the creation of the world, as described in the first verses ...

In that lifespan, it rose to fame as one of the world’s leading Jewish ... his first trip to uncover his family history. “I was initially frustrated because it conflicted with my image of ...

Josh Stein, North Carolina’s Democratic attorney general, is projected to become the state’s first ... his image once he entered political office, and says he apologized to local Jewish ...