brought with him a scaled-down Torah and did the first Torah reading outside of Earth. He also had a set of Jewish ritual items specially made for his trip, including a mezuzah with a Velcro strip ...

“Instead of a traditional Torah reading service or women’s tefillah [prayer] service or a partnership minyan service, we’ve seen a lot more… girls read, in part or the entire, Megillat ...

Developmentally, the text of the Torah is challenging for young children. The written text is not yet accessible to them because of their reading level, and even when read aloud, the language is often ...

Torah study and listening to the word of God reconnect the person with the original choice of loyalty and commitment. Information ...

Onkelos was always heroic in my mind. Before sitting down to write about the book, I couldn’t resist this opportunity to check how accurately I remembered the stories of my youth.

“Rabbi Fendel was more than a man of faith—he was a builder, a dreamer, and living proof that with enough determination ...

Clearly, those images are very sweet, and very wrong. This week’s Torah reading contains the verse which most encourages those fantasies. Here’s the verse: Inasmuch as Avraham obeyed Me and ...

“Le’David Barchi Nafshi” is a compilation of essays written on the weekly Torah reading by David Schwartz, of blessed memory. First published on the occasion of his marriage to ...

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (RNS) — Growing up in Argentina in an assimilated Jewish family, Jorge Singman never had a bar mitzvah, a ...