A little more than 50 years ago, on December 6, 1975, a makeshift Shabbat prayer service was held in the cavernous ballroom of Lincoln Square Synagogue, which was then located on West 69th Street and ...

One of the more unusual and intriguing manuscripts to pass through my hands recently is a handwritten manual of practical Kabbalah titled Goralot Achithophel – a work that sits at the crossroads of ...

According to the Chofetz Chaim, anyone can start one. He suggests the following steps: After separating maaser or tithe funds, one-third of the amount should be saved towards a free loan fund until ...

My first language is Yiddish, you see. Farshteyn? She patiently explained that it wasn’t that something was made, it was just what it was called when nice folks make things available for free for ...

One reason given by the Elya Rabbah (Simon 492, seif 3) for these fast days is to atone for the possible sin of doing work on the recently passed Chol HaMoed of Sukkos or Pesach. One can immediately ...

The Dutchess County Conservative Party was promoting a new governor for next year. The sign “Retire Hochul” said it all. In a bucolic setting at the northern end of the Metro-North’s Hudson line, ...

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 Va’etchanan, we declared the Shema: “Hear, O Israel…” A moment of thunder and tenderness, of inheritance wrapped in presence. In Eikev, we continue it, not in recitation, but in enactment. Here, in ...

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 ...

The New York Times’s July 5 edition included a long news analysis article by Michael D. Shear, “The Cost of Victory: Israel Overpowered Its Foes, but Deepened Its Isolation,” which refers to “the Oct.

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 ...