The Gemara teaches that on Rosh Hashanah, G-d remembered Sarah, Rachel, and Hannah for their infertility and bore them children. Each is mentioned in the Rosh Hashanah Torah and Haftarah readings.

I do try to have an inspirational davening on Yom Kippur, but it’s tough to stay focused and not count the pages every half hour. There’s a certain joy we get realizing that the number of pages in the ...

Friday, the New York City Health Department released its first comprehensive evaluation of the Congestion Relief Zone Tolling ...

I was 20 at the time of my first escape attempt. It was unsuccessful – someone had informed the authorities of my plan – and I was sent home from the Czech - German border, back to my prison of ...

Elul asks something subtler of us: introspection, to notice where we have drifted and begin walking back before the Day of ...

Our daf continues the discussion of forbidden mixtures of foods and associated problems encountered. We center on a ...

As America marks 250 years since its founding, I’d like to focus on a story rarely told with the prominence it deserves: the central role Jewish Americans have played in building the nation's ...

What does it mean to be a bar mitzvah? How does one keep up the momentum long after reaching the age of 13? What are a girl’s obligations when she becomes a bat mitzvah? These questions and more are ...

(July 28, 2026 / Pesach Benson/TPS-IL) Thousands of archaeological items, including coins and artifacts from the Persian (539–332 BCE), Hellenistic (332–140 BCE) and Hasmonean (140–37 BCE) periods in ...

Rabbi Klein responds: Fascinating! That seems to reflect what I wrote – how the names Frida and Freyda are often conflated. And you tied it in to Shlomit, even though in my article I connected it to ...

A little more than 50 years ago, on December 6, 1975, a makeshift Shabbat prayer service was held in the cavernous ballroom of Lincoln Square Synagogue, which was then located on West 69th Street and ...

Assessments derived from commercial satellite imagery that were conducted independently by David Albright, a former United Nations weapons inspector, and Decker Eveleth, an associate research analyst ...