All Ohr HaTorah regulars know about my little bit of a trick question: “How long did it take the Israelites to get from Mt. Sinai to the land of Canaan?” The uninitiated almost always say, “Forty ...

Joshua A. Berman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Bible at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is the author of Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought. This ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each parent’s and child’s personality, needs, and circumstance vary so widely.

WHEN ENTERING A Jewish synagogue, one’s eyes are drawn to the front of the sanctuary where the Aron Kodesh — the holy ark— stands. Behind the doors of the ark sits the focal point of Jewish life: one ...

Whenever I sit down to plan to teach a parasha, I begin by reading the original Torah text, keeping in mind my overall goals for teaching Torah. If this is a narrative section of Torah, then I try to ...

Rabbi Paul F. Cohen, D.Min., D.D. is Senior Rabbi of Temple Jeremiah in Northfield. Shavuot is the festival that celebrates the giving and the receiving of Torah. The theological pillar of the ...

Haredi students at the Ponovitz Yeshiva. Pushing the argument further, aside from the Torah leadership and others involved in governing and guiding the Jewish people returned to their homeland, in ...

A film crew recently traveled to Northbrook to capture footage of second graders from Solomon Schechter Day School of Metropolitan Chicago. The children will be seen carrying a Torah that survived the ...

(JTA) — More than 20 years after the theft of ancient Torah scrolls from a synagogue in Nablus, the Israel Antiquities Authority retrieved one page from the missing objects and invited its owners to ...