Abraham was a nuanced and complicated person, a flawed character like all of our ancestors in the Torah. And like all of us.

In his book Lessons in Leadership, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks – a briliant rabbinic leader – comments that “Abraham is without a ...

A Torah hidden for decades is now being restored by Holocaust survivors. Local survivors gathered at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County on Thursday to help bring the scroll ...

But, taking the Jewish Linguistic and Culinary Walking Tour of Pico-Robertson Sunday morning, I quickly discovered that ...

Family, friends and community members joined a joyous celebration in Crown Heights Sunday as a new Torah was completed in the ...

Jewish National Fund-USA pledges funds to renovate and upgrade “the heart and soul” of Be’er Sheva’s 13,000-strong community, ...

Laughter is good medicine. Ask Avraham and Sarah. After all, they dealt with the challenges of life through faithful laughter ...

As a matter of usual practice, Avraham Avinu was renowned for his hospitality and chesed. Why does the Torah specifically highlight his encounter with the three angels who looked like Arabs? And why ...

The Bnei Yissachar explains that the “pauper” in this verse could also refer to someone spiritually impoverished – a person who lacks sufficient Torah knowledge and wisdom. The Bnei Yissachar does not ...

Cantor Jennifer Bern-Vogel was used to hearing her mother tell the story. On the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, her mother, then ...

A marble tablet inscribed with nine of the Ten Commandments, said to be the oldest intact version of its kind in stone, is ...

God was testing Abraham. Not the antisemite. Not Hamas. God. And Abraham passed the test with flying colors. Disillusionment is a very big test in life, especially if it comes from an unexpected ...