Jewish groups including the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Louisville and the National Council of Jewish Women’s Louisville Section ...

Tzvee Zahavy is a triathlon swimmer, a competitive golfer, a prolific author of books on Judaism, a prize-winning professor with a PhD from Brown University, a compassionate rabbi with semicha from ...

AI-generated depiction of the stones. Not intended to be a true representation. If I asked you to describe a precious stone, you would probably tell me what it is. A diamond. A ruby. An emerald. The ...

At the end of last week, Chana was released from the hospital after another suicide attempt, and she wasn’t eligible for admission to another facility. We found out about a “bayit meyazen,” and we ...

David with a young cancer patient in the hospital, bringing goodies and a warm smile. Many parents who lose a child to serious illness count themselves fortunate to be able to simply go on and live ...

A vort is a Yiddish word that is generally used in one of two contexts. The first one is a small short thought about the Torah. A longer thought might be called a d’var Torah, but a short idea is ...

When a person wraps themselves in a tallis, they physically embody this teaching. The Ba’al Shem Tov explained that the soul longs to feel encompassed by the light of Hashem, what Chassidic thought ...

The South Caucasus has become an area filled with regional and international players competing for influence and economic power. On one hand, there are the countries of the region – Azerbaijan, ...

A friend of mine mentioned how her husband, a righteous man, ran to be the tenth guy for a minyan for someone who couldn’t get to shul, when suddenly he tripped and tore his ligaments, requiring ...

It all started at the NFC Championship weekend last Sunday. As on almost every typical Sunday, we went grocery shopping in the afternoon. The store was almost empty (usually on Sundays the store is ...

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) occupies a singular place in the history of modern art. Born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania into a prosperous and culturally ambitious family, she became one of the most ...

Sol and Lauren Wachtler pictured in his Manhasset home last year. Sol Wachtler, the former chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, and his daughter Lauren, an attorney ...