Joseph sees kingship; he sees how what he learned and dreamed in his father’s home will touch favorably the entire world: he ...

Why was Hanukkah assigned blue? Take a deeper dive into the history of the color, plus the commercial effect of the holiday ...

The lesson is clear: Sometimes, exercising a right may not make us right. The willingness to go beyond strict justice, to act with middas chasidus, can transform not only our relationships but also ...

Sobbing, she told Musallam how a group of Jewish settlers had just broken through ... kitchen appliances, clothing — onto the road outside. The settlers wanted the Palestinian family, Orthodox ...

During Hanukkah, the days of light triumphing over darkness, as the small flames illuminate the night, let us remember the ...

Shem, of course, is the ancestor and progenitor of the Jewish nation ... the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) Shimon ha-Tzaddik, wearing his garments of Kehunah (Priesthood), led a delegation of Elders ...

Our Gemara on Amud Aleph describes the careful safeguards implemented in capital cases. To prevent the court from being ...

14 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens ... 23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus they took his garments and made four parts, one for each soldier; also ...

He had no winter clothing, so he wore everything he had ... “They were 28 or 29, so I figured that was normal.” Cohn, born Jewish in Germany, witnessed the horrors of Adolf Hitler’s rise ...

Over the centuries, the Christmas story has been re-cast and romanticized into a kind of Christian “mythology.” But what do ...

Holy water is water blessed by the priest with solemn prayer to beg ... candles burning in our name on the altar of God, and if the Jewish people yearly made offerings to their temple, faithful ...

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny ... To use the words of Martin Buber, the great Jewish philosopher, segregation substitutes an “I ...