Rabbi David Fohrman is the dean of Aleph Beta Academy. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University, and was a lead writer and editor for ArtScroll's Talmud translation project. Aleph Beta creates videos ...

Levi Eshkol (1895-1969), born Levi Shkolnik in the small Ukrainian town of Oratov, emerged from humble beginnings to become one of Israel’s most consequential, yet least celebrated, leaders. His early ...

American Jewry in the early days of the United States was a small community, numbering only a few synagogues. All of them followed the Spanish and Portuguese minhag and used Sephardic prayerbooks. The ...

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden ...

Abortion is complex on many levels – halachically, hashkafically, emotionally, and politically. For the American Jewish community, the issue is fraught because of the secular laws and politics ...

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 ...

Walter Disney (1901-66), a worldwide cultural icon, was an animator, film producer, and entrepreneur credited with pioneering the American animation industry. His films, which are beloved worldwide, ...

Many of the slogans chanted by antisemitic mobs on university campuses and in major cities following the October 7, 2023, atrocities – “genocide… starvation ...

In the year 1910, a major event began in Jerusalem: some of the sages of the Ashkenazic kabbalistic yeshiva Sha’ar Shamayim – likely in coordination with the sages of the Sephardic kabbalistic yeshiva ...

Bronze sculpture of an ibex from Iran, 1st millennium BCE. Fishes are not named in either sedra – only the requirement of having fins and scales. Be aware that fish can have different types of scales ...

The Mishna (Sanhedrin 9:1) states that a murderer receives his death penalty via sayif (execution via sword, one of the four methods that a Jewish court would carry ...

Abu Muhammed al-Julani (Ahmed al-Shara'a), Syria's president. The Islamist regime of Ahmad al-Shara’a in Damascus has declared war on Iran’s proxy in Lebanon, the Hezbollah terrorist army, with ...