Why are two Torah portions read together on certain weeks?

Yesterday, around the world, we Jews observed Tisha B’Av, a day of grieving the historical destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, ...

Chabad is nothing if not well-organized. Each year, they release a set of uniform lesson plans to literally hundreds of ...

From kibbitz/kibbutz to mitzvah/mikveh, we round up some easily confused Hebrew and Yiddish terms.

“To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting America’s origins in a slavery economy is patriotism a’ la carte.” A recent ...

Hi everyone – I am back from Israel! Hope you have been enjoying all the amazing guest posts while I ...

Israel, likened to a barren woman, is promised countless children.

When I was growing up, I used to listen to records of GI Joe or Sci Fi stories that came ...

The Conservative movement's creation of this scroll is the latest attempt in contemporary Judaism to create a liturgy for Yom Hashoah.

I was sitting in synagogue beside a beautiful, ornate, wood carved mechitzah when I saw something I had never noticed ...