'We are on a very, very special journey,' say Detroit natives LaDerryl and Danielle Hart.
Rachel and Ya'akov inspire us with their love, their coping with setbacks and the lessons they and we learn from Yitzchak and Rivka.
A surprising Rashi on the two sons of Rivka and Isaac leads us to wonder if it is the hunter or the tent-dweller who is of no consequence?
What's this whole story about - what is Yitzchak doing in Grar??
Beware of humiliating Talmidei Chachamim. A lesson for today...
The struggle of mankind.
Does the Shechinah leave Eretz Yisrael? If so, why?
US Jews are at a moment in time when they feel the same vulnerabilities that Jews have felt in too many lands and at too many times.
This week’s Torah reading, Toldot, paints dishonesty with words rather than images
Kislev reminds us that personally and nationally we undergo times of darkness and struggles, and inspires us to overcome them.
Yaakov is the idealistic, ethical voice, but can he make it in the real world?
Though Abraham’s wells lasted the duration of his lifetime, the Philistines filled them with sand when he died. Isaac redug them. A lesson.
How does a dry cell battery explain what this week's parasha is really telling us?
Fasting, prayer, love of Zion and festivities: how Ethiopia's Beta Israel Jews enriched Israeli Jewish life with a unique, ancient festival.
Continuing with the series of articles on foreign born rabbis who have served and become famous in South Africa.
History and generations. When family history lays questionable baggage on your back.
Litvish activists and Chabadniks spread lies and conspiracies surrounding the case of the Vienna converts and the rabbis who converted them.
Matchmaking is as hard as splitting the Red Sea, said our Sages, but this is how you do it!
What would the two angels who came to Lot in Sodom say of our society now?
We no longer face an unfriendly administration. We face an unfriendly America. Op-ed.
Why do other languages go from left to right?
Israel's 1st Chief Rabbi, iconic leader of Religious Zionism: "The soul is always praying. It constantly seeks to fly away to its Beloved.”
In the parasha: To each a perfect match.
Words repeated, but not redundant. How is that if the Torah gives importance to every word?
Young religious Zionist Torah scholars elucidate the connections to the Holy Land in Chayei Sarah, this week's Torah reading
Why is Hevron considered one of the four holy cities in Eretz Yisrael?
Why does Avraham care so much about finding Yitzchak a wife from where he was born? It's not like the people there were better!
This is the only instance in the whole of Tanach, that the number of years of the life of a woman, is written.
Sarah is the woman of iron that acts to guarantee the future survival of the Jewish people.
Humanity has grown from 1m. hungry people scattered across the globe, to 8 billion organized in civilizations. Where are we in all this?
We Jews are Hashem’s chosen people! And Avraham spoke the plain, fundamental truth which all humanity, even Biden, must accept.
Yishmael - A man suited to the desert, unable to coexist with his fellow-men, accept human laws or to live with civilized human society..
Continuing the series about foreign born rabbis who selflessly served South African Jewry over decades.
The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life.
In the year 1969, the Jewish Agency succeeded in rescuing a few Jews from the USSR. Read what happened to them in Vienna.
Shabbat Chayei Sarah testifies to the enduring power of the Jewish connection to our promised land. Op-ed.
Your party promised a plan for Diaspora Jewry and for increasing Aliyah before the elections. Now is the chance to act on it.
Contrasting the attitudes of Avimelech and Avraham in complying with God's Word teaches us about different relationships with God..
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: A certain spiritual peril lurks in any meal that we eat.
Three of the four parties that comprise our new government are halakha observers. The message is that we will begin asserting our rightfs.
Why does Hashem say He 'has to tell' Avraham about impending destruction of Sdom - and why does Avraham argue with Him?
Young Israeli Religious Zionist Torah scholars teach the importance of the Holy Land as seen in each week's Torah reading. Watch and learn.
What do we mean when we refer to Avraham as being Avraham Avinu, Abraham our father?
Why would the angels need to further endear Sarai to her husband by pointing out how she remained modestly in her tent?
God’s seal is truth. Truth is the gift that we ask God to grant to Yaakov. Sodom and Avimelech are the diametric opposite of that.
The incestuous union of Lot and his daughter, began the dynasty that would culminate in the Mashiach.
Commandements between God and man or between man and his fellow man? Which get priority when they clash?
The Sara Litton z”l Monthly Emunah Essay,Cheshvan has no holidays,and is therefore the time to appreciate Shabbat even more.
There are a number of famous “rabbinical couples” that moved to South Africa and made their mark. The Tanzers are a case in point.
It is only by counting the ant-Zionist Arab votes that the ratio goes down. But we are well on the derekh to a rebirth of tradition.
May we rise to the challenge at our moment in time. With Abraham and Isaac's faith in which the comprehensible and incomprehensible coexist.
The vision God assigned to the Jews in their land is to bring blessing to all the nations through institutions and self-improvement.
In times of despair, when the journey seems endless, Abraham and Sarah showed that we can hold our heads high- and put a mezuza on our door!
Our mission as Hashem’s proxies has been to clash with the world’s civilizations, shatter their essence and disclose the lies within them.
She died so young and yet women have gone to her tomb to pray for thousands of years, knowing that she understands their tears.
Israel's first Chief Rabbi: "A cohen is not an intermediary but someone who purifies us and enables us to approach G-d directly."
Had the words of G-d been said to Abraham today, what would the outcome be?
Young religious Zionist Torah scholars talk about the connection between Eretz Yisrael and the parsha.
The command of 'Lech lecha' is spoken constantly by God to everyone, but Avram, our leader, actually heard, internalized, and acted upon it.
