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 ...

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 ...

Among the more curious acquisitions to cross my desk this week was a pair of rare Talmud volumes that owe their existence to one of the most brilliant – and most vexing – rabbinic figures of the early ...

In my view, far too many valuable resources and an extensive amount of energy were spent in generating votes for the American portion of the World Zionist Congress elections. And I say this as a ...

The Philadelphia Israel Chamber of Commerce is asking whether it makes sense to shutter a consulate located in the heart of a financial market that sees 25% of Israel's exports to the US pass through ...

Recap: Chani visits an old friend, Leah Stein, in her basement apartment in Westgate. Leah was once wealthy but is now poor, widowed, and infirm. Chani left Leah with a promise to return again in a ...

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 ...

While the relationship between Israel and Turkey has long been a volatile one, with periodic swings in degrees of cooperation and commonality, after Israel’s spectacular degrading of Iran’s military ...

Siyum HaShas in Tel Aviv on January 20, 2020. Like so many other Jews, the Staum family’s American roots begin on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. My grandparents all lived there, and until we moved to ...