The Torah mandated, thousands of years ago, not only that the judge or judges be the peers of the litigants who

There are no personality cults in Judaism.

The US administration desperately wants negotiations to restart, and it is likely that Netanyahu has caved in to

Moses begged to enter the land of Israel. Do we?

Parashat Dvarim, beginning with Moshe’s rebuke of the Children of Israel, is always read on the Shabbat that immediately

The story of the spies is surprising. How could they err so grievously?

The Midrash suggests that our forty-year desert trek was not solely a punishment for the sin of the spies and of

How could the spies have delivered such a demoralizing report?

Two inverted letter "nun"s. Why?

The year 1920 has an evil name in Arab annals: it is referred to as the Year of the Catastrophe (cĀm al-Nakba).

Like the dove which Noah had sent forth, had we found rest we would not have returned to all the places we regained

With the double parashah of Behar-Bekhukkotay we complete the Book of Leviticus this Shabbat before going on to

Three events of great significance occurred on the 12th of Iyar - two in 1943 and one in 1948. What a difference

The signs of Redemption are here. Only we must recognize them.

They tried in Egypt, Persia and Europe. And in Warsaw, the valiant Jewish fight against impossible odds began the