Through this tragedy of loss and destruction, the righteous have come forward. Los Angeles, the city of angels, human angels.

While saving human lives is top priority according to Jewish tradition, the mandate to save Torahs is a close second, ...

Elissa Slotkin, a former congresswoman who narrowly won her election to the U.S. Senate in November, took the oath of office ...

Several houses of worship were destroyed in Pasadena and Altadena, including a mosque — Masjid Al-Taqwa. Its imam lost his ...

The Torah’s claim about the revelation at Har Sinai also reinforces our belief in Hashem (in addition to our faith in the Torah’s Divine origin). The claim that an entire nation (as opposed to a l ...

The Persian Torah rescued from the LA fire that engulfed the Pasadena Jewish Center is a powerful emblem for persistence and ...

Rabbi Mendy Piekarski and Rabbi Dovid Weiss join Katy Tur to share their experience evacuating from the California wildfires ...

Many people I encounter here in Victoria have no familiarity at all with basic Jewish vocabulary, so I thought I would use ...

God was not in the fire, but God’s voice is within us, guiding us through yet another Hurban, another destruction, calling on ...

After ensuring that the students were sent home safely, the next priority was the protection of the center’s two Torah scrolls, one of which had been brought over from Europe by a family after ...

Flames were already attacking the campus of Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center when the cantor, Ruth Berman Harris, and three companions rushed in to rescue its sacred Torah scrolls. Physically ...

Housing Minister Yitzchak Goldknopf, the chairman of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, welcomes the hostage deal ...