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Rabbi David Fohrman is the dean of Aleph Beta Academy. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University, and was a lead writer and editor for ArtScroll's Talmud translation project. Aleph Beta creates videos ...

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An oil leak in the Arava area of Southern Israel, on December 4, 2014. An Israeli court approved a plea deal on Thursday requiring the Europe Asia Pipeline Company (EAPC) to pay 1.5 million shekels ...

In the financial world, few things offer more comfort than receiving a large sum of cash. The challenge is how to handle a windfall responsibly based on the markets, economic environment, and personal ...

Nvidia is ramping up its presence in Israel with a major real estate move that will see the U.S.-based tech leader take over 10 more floors in the Rubinstein Twin Towers (also known as TOU Towers) in ...

Synopsis: Last week we cited some Biblical sources for the significance of a boy maturing at age thirteen. We noted as well that the obligation to obey and perform the mitzvot begins at that time, and ...

Portrait of Beser posing in front of the Enola Gay. On the Lufthansa Airlines cover displayed here, Jacob Herschel Beser has handwritten what constitutes a complete and definitive statement of his ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, like his predecessor, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, is not only unafraid of death, he welcomes it as an expression of profound religious ...

Dafna Filshteiner, 12, holds a 3,500-year-old Egyptian scarab she found during a family hike. A 12-year-old girl hiking with her family stumbled upon a 3,500-year-old Egyptian amulet, the Israel ...

Bronze sculpture of an ibex from Iran, 1st millennium BCE. Fishes are not named in either sedra – only the requirement of having fins and scales. Be aware that fish can have different types of scales ...

The Mishna (Sanhedrin 9:1) states that a murderer receives his death penalty via sayif (execution via sword, one of the four methods that a Jewish court would carry ...