Social justice is more than a footnote in the Torah. It's a central theme, Little Rock Rabbi Barry Block maintains. The Holiness Code in Leviticus requires more than sacrifices and Sabbath observance; ...

Rabbi Elchanan Shoff, the leader of Beis Knesses Los Angeles in Pico-Robertson and a local educator, is known for thinking outside the box when it comes to Torah learning. Whether he is giving a ...

Simchat Torah. It’s the Jewish holiday that comes after all the important Jewish holidays — Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot — this time of year. At the end of one Torah-reading cycle and the ...

Rabbi Amnon Bazak’s second volume on the biblical book of Samuel is superb, far better than the many classical commentators ...

(JTA) — Sefaria, the app that contains a digital collection of Jewish texts, has made everything from Genesis to an essay on Jewish law and gambling accessible at the tap of a finger. But in one way, ...

When analyzing the oldest books of the Bible, scholars have identified the work of various writers and editors. But how did ...

A passage in this week’s Torah portion says that when a king ascends the throne, he must write his own version of the scroll, keep it with him, and “read it all the days of his life so he may learn to ...

My sons are on the threshold of being teenagers. I raised teenage girls but am just getting my feet wet with teenage boys. I was eager to read this book and hear what an expert educator who has worked ...

Like many millennial men, I spent time this summer caught up in a wave of nostalgia fueled by the premiere of “Happy Gilmore 2”, the sequel to Adam Sandler’s 1996 movie about a foul-mouthed man-child ...

Last week, the Jewish world lost a special individual whose life was devoted to disseminating the wisdom of Sephardic Sages. Rabbi Meir Abitbol z”l passed away between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, ...

While women have been teaching Torah for decades, few have been writing about it — and a new book writing project aims to rectify that. (JTA) — Sefaria, the app that contains a digital collection of ...