Rabbi Aaron I. Reichel, Esq., is a New York attorney who has written many articles on secular and Jewish topics, and has written, edited, and/or supplemented various biographies, most notably of Rabbi ...

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Dr. Jeffrey Folks is the author of Heartland of the Imagination (2011).

Saul Jay Singer serves as senior legal ethics counsel with the District of Columbia Bar and is a collector of extraordinary original Judaica documents and letters. He welcomes comments at at sauljsing ...

Tashlich (“and you shall cast”), the Jewish ceremony of symbolically casting away sins into a body of water, usually by shaking out their garments or tossing breadcrumbs into a body of flowing water, ...

The name of Hashem has been blurred to avoid sheimos. What an exciting family heirloom to own! You and I have had some follow-up communication after your initial email to me; that is because I had to ...

Abortion is complex on many levels – halachically, hashkafically, emotionally, and politically. For the American Jewish community, the issue is fraught because of the secular laws and politics ...

Even though the title of this column is “Torah by the Numbers,” we’re starting this week with a look at the end of Chanukah and the three tragedies commemorated on the 8 th, 9 th, and 10 th of this ...

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 ...

Jews who live in the Diaspora sometimes ask, “Is it a Mitzvah to live in Israel in a time of danger?” Occasionally the question takes different forms. “Is it permissible to live in settlements in ...

Many of the slogans chanted by antisemitic mobs on university campuses and in major cities following the October 7, 2023, atrocities – “genocide… starvation ...

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 ...