A little more than 50 years ago, on December 6, 1975, a makeshift Shabbat prayer service was held in the cavernous ballroom of Lincoln Square Synagogue, which was then located on West 69th Street and ...

A new anti-Israel narrative is taking shape among elements of the Democratic Party. It’s not about Gaza, settlements in Judea and Samaria, or Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s more menacing and fundamental.

Candles seem to be used in a lot of different ways for Jewish people. I personally was never sure what happens at Orthodox bat mitzvahs, but I just know that it may or may not involve some sort of ...

One reason given by the Elya Rabbah (Simon 492, seif 3) for these fast days is to atone for the possible sin of doing work on the recently passed Chol HaMoed of Sukkos or Pesach. One can immediately ...

Israeli officials from across the political spectrum voiced deep concern over Tuesday’s election of Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor, calling him a Hamas supporter and avowed Jew-hater. Israeli ...

After Lot departed from Avraham, Hashem visited him and promised the Land as well as descendants so numerous they could not be counted. Avraham’s response to this promise is not recorded. However, as ...

Why did G-d destroy the world with a flood? We don’t have to look very hard because the Torah tells us explicitly: The earth was corrupt before G-d and the earth was filled with wrongdoing. Hashem saw ...

The Dutchess County Conservative Party was promoting a new governor for next year. The sign “Retire Hochul” said it all. In a bucolic setting at the northern end of the Metro-North’s Hudson line, ...

In Va’etchanan, we declared the Shema: “Hear, O Israel…” A moment of thunder and tenderness, of inheritance wrapped in presence. In Eikev, we continue it, not in recitation, but in enactment. Here, in ...

In the financial world, few things offer more comfort than receiving a large sum of cash. The challenge is how to handle a windfall responsibly based on the markets, economic environment, and personal ...

In his new books, Rabbi Yosef Weisenfeld eloquently addresses these questions and more while also making the reader rethink the concept of facing “mizrach.” For example, one will be surprised to learn ...

Last Thursday, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, former Chief Rabbi of Israel, launched a scathing attack on MK Yuli Edelstein, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, over Edelstein’s push ...