Sacks, the chief rabbi of Great Britain, is the author of a posthumous volume that is challenging Israel's top-selling ...

Five years after Jonathan Sacks died suddenly from cancer, Koren Publishers releases commentary culled from his works that it believes sets a new standard ...

When it came time to choose the text on which she would be sworn into the U.S. Senate, Elissa Slotkin turned to a relatively recent book that reflects her own identity as a Jewish woman. Slotkin, a ...

Among the many laws in this week’s Torah portion, we read: “You shall not curse Elohim nor put a curse on a ruler in your nation” (Exodus 22:27). The word Elohim could be understood as God or gods, ...

This week’s Torah portion, Va-yakhel, is the first of two Torah portions concerned with the building of the Mishkan. In next week’s portion, Pekudei, we find the actual dedication of the Mishkan. I ...

Erev Shavuot, Salonika, 1533. Two young Sephardic rabbinic luminaries – Rav Yosef Karo and Rav Shlomo Alkabetz – got together for Tikkun Leil Shavuot, the all night Torah study custom first mentioned ...

On Sept. 11, 2014, at the annual meeting of the Jewish Federation of Chicago, Cardinal Francis George told the audience: “Before I went to the Conclave of the College of Cardinals this past February ...

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