Camp was over, the children were being picked up by their anxious parents, and we, the exhausted staff, were finally relaxing a little. “So what are you up to now?” asked my fellow madrikh (counselor) ...

Rabbi Elazar said: Be diligent in the study of the Torah; and know how to answer an apikores, and know before whom you toil, and that your employer is faithful, for He will pay you the reward of your ...

It took nearly an hour for the rabbi to write the first word of Genesis: "Bereishit," which is Hebrew for "in the beginning." As he finished each letter, drawn with a quill dipped in ink, the crowd in ...

Five years ago, Rabbi Guy Austrian made a small but powerful change at the synagogue he leads: He wrote down the language his community used to call non-binary members to the Torah. That language had ...

The last mitzvah commanded by the Torah is to participate in the writing of a Torah scroll. In this spirit, a new Torah scroll was commissioned for the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School, the first ...

and both bring their own blessings. Do not curse the evening, for without it cucumbers would never arrive in your salad. Do not curse the day, for without it your skin would be as pale us a unicorn.

The insistent wind blew snow flurries against our frozen cheeks and tugged at our homemade signs as we gathered at the corner, in front of our neighborhood library. A woman stood with her two little ...

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When Gavriel Kedem became a bar mitzvah, he was focused on the usual things: chanting the parsha, giving his dvar, the people watching. He wasn’t thinking about it as a historic moment. But it was — ...

Halina “Nadi” Nadel Lasch added the Hebrew letter ״מ״ in honor of her father Moshe to the Survivor Torah. Jonny Daniels traveled to Mexico City so she could make her contribution. She died a short ...