At the forefront of the Torah portion of “Vayigash” stands the confrontation and reconciliation of the brothers, Yosef and Yehuda. The Haftara employs this rivalry and reunion in a ...

By the time the bill was paid, she’d invited Ryan home. Her friends, including her Rabbi Sharon Brous, discouraged her, worried for her safety. But Hanne refused to listen; Ryan stayed in her ...

"Forgive us our trespasses: grant us your peace" is Pope Francis' theme for the World Day of Peace, today, Jan. 1, 2025. His plea is for a year blessed by forgiveness — forgiveness between ...

The escalation of antisemitism in the wake of the Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terror massacre in Israel has paved the way for attacks on Jewish communities around the world ...

Rabbi Matthew Bellas, a prominent Olney, MD rabbi who is the Lower School Principal at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, has died. Bellas passed away Monday, December 30th, according to several ...

The puppet show at Casa Bonita is full of in-jokes that only Denverites will get. (Ray Mark Rinaldi / Special to the Denver Post) Puppet play Could a puppet show, performed at a restaurant ...

The celebrated first Chief Rabbi of pre-state Israel, Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook (1865-1935) is recognized as being among the most important Jewish thinkers of all time. His writings ...

His father, Holocaust survivor Michael Nehorai, was a professor of Jewish philosophy and student of Rav Avraham Yitzhak Kook’s son, Rav Tzvi Yehuda, until they split over a disagreement about ...

However, Rav Avraham Yitzhak Kook taught that such an image is a function of thousands of years of exile when we were stripped of statehood and collective Jewish living. During our exile ...

The World's Largest Menorah on Fifth Avenue in New York City this Chanukah is being dedicated to Rabbi Shmuel Butman OBM, the one who commissioned and lit it each year. Both of his sons Rabbis Velvel ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In contrast to Oppenheimer, there was the reaction by Rabbi Josh Feigelson, president and CEO of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. In a Facebook post, he addresses Brooks with “compassion ...