A grand plan to publish an elucidated English edition of Torah Or and Likkutei Torah is being undertaken in memory of R’ Gedaliah Shaffer OBM, whose yartzeit is on the 17th of Adar.

It took nearly an hour for the rabbi to write the first word of Genesis: "Bereishit," which is Hebrew for "in the beginning." As he finished each letter, drawn with a quill dipped in ink, the crowd in ...

This week’s Torah portion, Tetzaveh, is the only Torah portion, from the beginning of Exodus through the end of Deuteronomy, from which Moses is completely absent. Everywhere else in Exodus, Numbers, ...

This, I think, is the message of Simchat Torah: to hold firmly in one’s imagination the joyful possibility of a year made truly new. A month ago, I was asked to write about what it’s like to be an ...

baba (itsbaba.com), the AI-powered Hebrew translation platform, today releases baba 2.0 — a complete rebuild of its iOS and Android app with new AI models, powerful new translation modes, and a ...

Rabbi Elazar said: Be diligent in the study of the Torah; and know how to answer an apikores, and know before whom you toil, and that your employer is faithful, for He will pay you the reward of your ...

Halina “Nadi” Nadel Lasch added the Hebrew letter ״מ״ in honor of her father Moshe to the Survivor Torah. Jonny Daniels traveled to Mexico City so she could make her contribution. She died a short ...

There are no coincidences in life. On June 14th I attended a conference of Temech, an organization whose goal is to help haredi women achieve financial independence through guidance in building their ...

(JTA) — Five years ago, Rabbi Guy Austrian made a small but powerful change at the synagogue he leads: He wrote down the language his community used to call non-binary members to the Torah. That ...

A new written Torah, the Unity Torah of Bellaire, was dedicated at the Shul of Bellaire a week before Rosh Hashana, setting the stage for the joyfulness of the High Holy Days, which will come to a ...

Rabbi Sarah Mulhern has been delighted by how many young Jews are looking for wisdom from ancient texts. “Who would have thought millennials and Gen Z-ers would be knocking on my door to learn Torah ...