The foundation of religious life is moral integrity. Before introducing rituals, ceremonies, or prohibitions, God demands ...

The author, with some reluctance, calls out three groups of individuals who – in his opinion – respond to tragedies in a manner that is inconsistent with Torah and Jewish philosophy.

[S&W, p. OT 432] By the time of Christ, all Jews accepted the five Books of Moses - the Torah - as Scripture; however, Books, like Esther and Ecclesiastes, were debated. From the Dead Sea Scrolls ...

The Holocaust Torah is on what the Memorial Scrolls Trust calls a "permanent loan." That means it will remain at Temple Or ...

In a new book, “Holiness and Society,” the Israeli scholar Ronen Shoval seeks to understand the philosophical implications of ...

Abraham Lincoln said it best when he spoke of “a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all ...

Rabbi Haim Yosef David Abergel, head of a community in Netivot, calls on haredim who are not seriously learning Torah to ...

Rabbi Mayer Plotkin, a Montreal-based businessman who has directed many Chabad activities in the area for decades, tells of ...