In the small Czechian town of Rakovnik stands a synagogue. At its peak, Rakovnik had a Jewish population of 374 people, but ...

Scriptural Misappropriation. Our Gemara on Amud Beis discusses the possibility that a witness might sign a document using his father’s name alone, without his name, as an i ...

Rather than staying secluded in his own family community, he expands his world, learning from all those that he meets. In ...

Published by Torah Umesorah – The National Society for Hebrew Day Schools, September 1970.) The summary and translation below is from the original article in English: Foreword: This Shiur ...

He is also mentioned in the Torah and the Quran. Continue reading Surrounding the scene is an inscription that, translated into English, reads: “Our Lord defeated evil.” Additionally, inscribed on the ...

As a group, we explore the text together, and I take the lead by reading aloud. Since I primarily teach newcomers with very limited English, we often turn to books that are simple yet engaging, like ...

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Dean of the Slabodka Yeshiva Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, a leader in the Lithuanian (non-Hasidic) community, told his yeshiva students who received draft orders, that it is a mitzvah to defect from ...

Michelle Friedman, a Manhattan-based psychiatrist and chair of pastoral counseling at the Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical ... In a speech translated into English, Danino told the audience ...

Our tradition calls him Avraham Avinu – Abraham our Patriarch. But more than just being “our patriarch,” Abraham was our very first leader. What kind of leader was Abraham? Initially he was ...