Jewish families can protect wives from agunah status through halachic prenups and wartime authorizations, ensuring resilience ...

Israel’s role in drawing the US into a war on Iran is attracting healthy scrutiny. It’s also creating a permission structure for antisemitism ...

Those who seek spirituality will ultimately find it, in part, among other people. The more circles of connection that emanate ...

The letter Mem alludes to water (mayim) - the first created substance: “God’s spirit moved over the water" (Gen. 1:2). This ...

In our own time as well, it is important to remember that the Holy One protects us with a wall of fire. Despite all the disasters that befall us the Lord shields us. Each day the Master of the ...

The Jewish question’ refers to the debate that arose in European society between the 18th and 20th centuries about the place, ...

Believe them! War is ugly. Jews, of all people, know this better than most. Our prayers plead for peace three times a day. When the President of the United States—whether one admires him or despises ...

There are two puzzling midrashim regarding mitzvos in the world to come. In Niddah (61b), Rav Yosef declares that the mitzvos will no longer be binding in the world to come, after the resurrection of ...

Baruch Spinoza, a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish descent, challenged religious and political norms. His ideas on rationalism and pantheism influenced Enlightenment thinkers. Spinoza believed ...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday extended a warm response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, commending him for donning traditional Indian attire before hosting a joint dinner the ...

Mayor Lurie may have made an honest mistake — he was apparently unable to see the demonstrators from the stage — but he needs ...