4:16 p.m. NYC E.S.T. Sabbath Ends: 5:21 p.m. NYC E.S.T. Sabbath Ends: Rabbenu Tam 5:48 p.m. NYC E.S.T. Weekly Reading: VaYigash Weekly Haftara: Va’yehi Devar Hashem ...

While the relationship between Israel and Turkey has long been a volatile one, with periodic swings in degrees of cooperation and commonality, after Israel’s spectacular degrading of Iran’s military ...

This week, in the quiet corner of a library’s shelf where forgotten treasures sometimes hide, I was fortunate to come across a truly delightful rarity: a Judeo-Persian translation of Megillat ...

“And Yaakov settled in the land in which his father had sojourned in the land of Canaan” (Bereishis 37:1). Unlike his father Yitzchak and his grandfather Avraham before him, whose journeys through ...

There was once a public debate between a rabbi and an astrophysicist regarding the nature of our universe. The astrophysicist, representing the atheist perspective, confidently approached the podium ...

We arrive at Parshat Vayishlach during a time in which the Jewish people again find themselves standing at a frightening crossroads. Antisemitism is erupting across European capitals, college campuses ...

The Gemara on amud aleph teaches: Certain unfit items, once they have been placed on the altar, are nevertheless sacrificed and not to be removed. The Mishna teaches: The altar sanctifies only items ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Israeli warplanes roared over Tehran in a wave of punishing strikes, another, quieter offensive was unfolding—one not launched from airbases, but from encrypted lines and whispered threats.

Booby-trapped tunnel shaft uncovered by IDF combat engineers. While mainstream media are focused on events in Iran, IDF soldiers are continuing Iron Sword operations in Gaza as they work to dismantle ...

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 ...