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In this January 22, 1958 correspondence to Dr. Horst Salomon, director of the Tel-Aviv Philharmonic, Otto Nosson Klemperer writes: I feel compelled to tell you personally how deeply I regret that I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most native English speakers (and many others) pronounce the name of this week’s sedra as TOL DOT (or TOL DOS). That’s wrong. The first letter, TAV (not TUFF, as many of us learned way back when), is ...

Fried chicken cutlet. Miami ribs with homemade rib sauce. Salmon with garlic butter sauce. It’s a menu that one could find in the best restaurants across Brooklyn, a borough of New York City with no ...

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 ...

Dafna Filshteiner, 12, holds a 3,500-year-old Egyptian scarab she found during a family hike. A 12-year-old girl hiking with her family stumbled upon a 3,500-year-old Egyptian amulet, the Israel ...

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 ...

Throughout history, Jews have celebrated Passover during perilous times, including during the Holocaust. There are countless heartbreaking stories of how Jews endeavored against all odds to celebrate ...

UK police arrested five men in northern England last Tuesday in two separate operations. The arrests took place in London, Swindon, and the Greater Manchester area in connection with “a suspected plot ...