Chizuk, “to be strong,” is often experienced as a strengthening derived from some external source of inspiration. We all have appreciated some good chizuk at one point in our lives. Yet chizuk that ...

Dr. Jeffrey Folks is the author of Heartland of the Imagination (2011).

Saul Jay Singer serves as senior legal ethics counsel with the District of Columbia Bar and is a collector of extraordinary original Judaica documents and letters. He welcomes comments at at sauljsing ...

Abortion is complex on many levels – halachically, hashkafically, emotionally, and politically. For the American Jewish community, the issue is fraught because of the secular laws and politics ...

André-Gustave Citroën (1878-1935) was a French industrialist best known as the man whose innovative and bold engineering and business ideas were singularly responsible for bringing Europe into the ...

“Male adult goat,” from Naples, Italy, second half 18th century. A goat represents impetuousness, as it jumps about and often in the Gemara is a symbol of an animal that breaks boundaries (Sukkah 14b) ...

“Rabbi Harry M. Felder had a congregation for more than 60 years,” Felder shared, “and [with] my mother, may she rest in peace as well, the two of them opened a small synagogue in 1952, which was in ...

In the financial world, few things offer more comfort than receiving a large sum of cash. The challenge is how to handle a windfall responsibly based on the markets, economic environment, and personal ...

The Mishna (Sanhedrin 9:1) states that a murderer receives his death penalty via sayif (execution via sword, one of the four methods that a Jewish court would carry ...

Even though the title of this column is “Torah by the Numbers,” we’re starting this week with a look at the end of Chanukah and the three tragedies commemorated on the 8 th, 9 th, and 10 th of this ...

Many of the slogans chanted by antisemitic mobs on university campuses and in major cities following the October 7, 2023, atrocities – “genocide… starvation ...

The media has played a pivotal role in reinforcing ignorance about Israel’s enemies by repeating their antisemitic slogans without exposing how they distort the truth. Understanding the relationship ...