The Torah is poetically called a shira, a song. In the context of the mitzva to write a Sefer Torah, the word shira refers to ...

At a press conference today, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a 10-year blueprint for street safety titled Vision Zero Reimagined. The plan would bring together nineteen city agencies, ...

Exploring the connection between Pharaoh's dreams and the story of Joseph being sold into slavery.

The rapid rise of the Democratic Socialists of America is profoundly troubling for American Jews. Before 2016, the organization had roughly 6,000 members; today it claims well over 100,000 – and is ...

A fascinating book I was recently consigned to sell tells a poignant and historically-rich story. The volume itself is unassuming enough: an 1872 Vienna printing of Sod Hashem, a classic work used by ...

In the coming week, we will observe the fast of the 17 th of Tammuz, and with it the beginning of the three-week period of mourning that precedes the 9 th of Av. In this week’s parsha, we learn about ...

In my old backpack – the one I’ve kept since high school – there is still an old Sony Walkman in the front pocket that my dad bought us, probably from one of his trips to the U.S. And inside it, there ...

Since the mid-19 th century, expositions and fairs have generated trade and relations between nations and, as early as 1898, an “International Scientific, Industrial and Philanthropic Fair” was ...

Artists on Antisemitism, currently running at 81 Leonard Gallery in Manhattan, is a courageous artistic proclamation attacking an insidious cancer growing in the midst of New York’s cultural capital.

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 ...

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 ...

Over the years, I’ve discussed several times that there are two contrasting opinions as to when G-d first began creating the finite universe. The first, that of Rabbi Eliezer, maintains that Creation ...