For the uninitiated, Rabbi Aharon Chaim Zimmerman is known as an eccentric rosh yeshiva and Jewish intellectual who flourished in the second half of the 20 th century. Rabbi Zimmerman was born in 1914 ...

I do believe in my heart of hearts that all Torah portions are awesome, but if I had to pick a favorite, it would be the Torah portion we read this past Shabbat, Yitro (Exodus 18:1–20:23). There is so ...

The prerequisite to understanding any story is answering the question: What is its genre? This might seem like an easy task, but it’s really not. Let’s say that someone gets offended by a joke. The ...

As teenagers living in America, we are often encouraged to take advantage of our natural capacity to question. Throughout a regular school day, I’ve heard that the average student asks 25 questions, ...

This week marks the debut of “The Torah: A Women’s Commentary,” which brings together the scholarship and insights of women from all segments of the Jewish community and from around the world. For the ...

On a recent weekday morning, Rabbi Greg Wall blew a 3-foot-long shofar off the coast of Norwalk, Connecticut. It was part of a Talmud class he teaches regularly aboard a 23-foot sailboat named Enough.

The Segula is Israel’s inner Divine light planted within the collective Hebrew soul and revealed in human history through the Jewish people. “You shall not be a gossip monger among your people, you ...