Chizuk, “to be strong,” is often experienced as a strengthening derived from some external source of inspiration. We all have appreciated some good chizuk at one point in our lives. Yet chizuk that ...

Dr. Jeffrey Folks is the author of Heartland of the Imagination (2011).

A few years later, he said, in 2015, he attended a Kahane Shabbaton and was inspired to embark on his video project after an old Kahane activist said, “When you go back home, don’t just say, ‘Kahane ...

You know, it seems they’re [the protesters] are upset that I played for the IDF soldiers, which is straight up antisemitic and racist, Matisyahu said. We’re not allowed to have our own army? That’s ...

Saul Jay Singer serves as senior legal ethics counsel with the District of Columbia Bar and is a collector of extraordinary original Judaica documents and letters. He welcomes comments at at sauljsing ...

Even though the title of this column is “Torah by the Numbers,” we’re starting this week with a look at the end of Chanukah and the three tragedies commemorated on the 8 th, 9 th, and 10 th of this ...

Among the more curious acquisitions to cross my desk this week was a pair of rare Talmud volumes that owe their existence to one of the most brilliant – and most vexing – rabbinic figures of the early ...

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 ...

Siyum HaShas in Tel Aviv on January 20, 2020. Like so many other Jews, the Staum family’s American roots begin on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. My grandparents all lived there, and until we moved to ...

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The Philadelphia Israel Chamber of Commerce is asking whether it makes sense to shutter a consulate located in the heart of a financial market that sees 25% of Israel's exports to the US pass through ...