The Rebbe was not only a brilliant scholar, but he was also a leader who taught us to live with faith that reaches beyond reason. He reminded us that doing a mitzvah, even one we don’t fully ...

Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

Grab your synthesizer, pink wig and star earrings – Jem is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. To commemorate four decades of Jem and the Holograms, Hasbro is releasing a new album of ...

The synagogue housing the Torah was ruined. Iran recaptured Khorramshahr in 1982, and someone — it’s unclear who — took the Torah to Tehran for safekeeping. By then, Nehdar was living in ...

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This made her really happy.” “This is so cool,” wrote Facebook user Daas Torah on July 2, sharing a link to the JEM software. “Finding lots of pictures of myself and others.” ...

Bass vows quick action A pro-Israeli counterprotester leans in as she speaks to pro-Palestinian protesters near Adas Torah synagogue in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood in Los Angeles on Sunday.

Our Torah is a living Torah. It lives in todays generation, of which creates an open space for women in the Beit Midrash, the study hall, the professional world and all in between.

Franklin Pierce was our 14th US president. Prior to the presidency, President Pierce suffered the death of his young sons. One was 11 years old and died in a train crash. There is much written ...

Learning Torah that is then not practiced – mitzvot, acts of kindness, concern for the welfare of others – is a most constricted and usually corrupted form of Torah. It is not a living Torah.

Writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, for example, saw in Simchat Torah a reminder that we never know everything, and much less than we think we know. Even for a text as familiar as the Bible, an ...