In just a few days, the Jewish community will sit around the Seder table and retell the story of our people’s journey from ...

On the seder night, we have only two biblical commandments: eating matzah and retelling the story of our redemption from ...

The Purim story begins about 900 years after the Exodus from Egypt, in what is now Iran, history repeats itself. The Jews had been living in Israel continually, since they first entered with Joshua.

Like many of you, my family has initiated the tradition of lighting a chanukiah for each member of our household. In our home, we light a traditional one, a sleek one, and a whimsical one. But the ...

Each night of Hannukah, we ritually place the lit Hannukiah in the window, one that opens to the outside world. The rabbis of the Talmud called this, “pirsumei nisa.” We are meant to publicize the ...

NEW YORK — Torn strips of paper piled 3 feet high lay over the grave, as Jewish people of various creeds circle the tomb, quietly uttering prayers. Fluorescent light spills from an entryway into the ...

“If you will say: What will we eat in the seventh year? …. I will ordain My blessing for you in the sixth year … “(Vayikra 25:20-21) The rest for the land, known as shemittah, is the seventh year of ...

From the blog of Gary Epstein at The Times of Israel ...

Imagine you meet someone and immediately notice something peculiar: he walks around incessantly clapping his hands. The next day, you realize that once again he is walking around clapping his hands.