Ramchal makes an interesting connection between the offerings we bring in service of Hashem and the bounty He sends into the universe for our benefit. He explicitly ties this relationship to the ...

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It is easy to maintain faith when everything is going well in our lives. We say to ourselves, “God’s in His heaven, all’s right with the world.” But what do we tell ourselves now, after the horrendous ...

His slot in the forthcoming Oud Days Festival draws on the writings of 18th century Italian rabbi, kabbalist, philosopher, and poet Moshe Haim Luzzatto. Shem-Tov Levi is one of our most venerated ...

Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife, indicted alongside him last month in a sprawling corruption case, was on the payroll of a medical lab that drew down more than $10 million in federal COVID-19 funding—a ...

Over the past six weeks, since Tisha b’Av, we have examined in this column the Maamar HaGeula of the Ramchal. With Rosh Hashana only a week away, and Ashkenazim beginning to say slichot this Motzei ...

Once again, this year, KKL-JNF will hold the traditional Selichot tours for the Tishrei holidays. The tours will begin at sundown in forest paths or at night in ancient cities, and each tour has its ...

We all want to make the world a better place to live and to eradicate evil and suffering. But how do we do so? It may be tempting to use a "quick fix" solution - destroy what exists and replace it ...

A new celebrity appears, again in the secular world, namely, Sir Isaac Newton. Newton changed science with his “Principium Mathematica,” his universal law of gravitation and his three laws of motion.

Oral Patrick had leaned toward voting for Kamala Harris, the daughter of a Jamaican immigrant, when she was running in the Democratic primary for president of the United States. Now he is glad she is ...