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).

A few years later, he said, in 2015, he attended a Kahane Shabbaton and was inspired to embark on his video project after an old Kahane activist said, “When you go back home, don’t just say, ‘Kahane ...

You know, it seems they’re [the protesters] are upset that I played for the IDF soldiers, which is straight up antisemitic and racist, Matisyahu said. We’re not allowed to have our own army? That’s ...

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 ...

A drawing from Bernard Germain de Lacépède’s “Histoire Naturelle des Poissons” (Natural History of Fish, 1798) Peru u’revu, the commandment to have children, is the Torah’s first mitzvah and, in fact, ...

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 ...

When presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders was young and still had all his hair, he was kicked out of a hippie commune in Vermont in 1971 because he was “sitting around and talking” politics instead of ...

“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) ...

The author (right) in shul with his father’s first cousin Larry Ciment. The plaque behind them is dedicated to the author’s grandparents and the one on the right to Larry Ciment’s parents. I have a ...

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 ...