Explore the essence of Lech-Lecha in this Torah commentary as Abraham embarks on a profound spiritual journey.

Menachem Mendel Litzman, a Chabad yeshiva bochur and son of the Shluchim in South Korea, tragically passed after a fall ...

Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D. This week’s Torah portion is Ha’azinu: Deuteronomy 32:1 – 52 Nobody likes to be criticized. In my fifth year of rabbinic school, I was required to write and deliver a ...

Cory Booker lambasted Donald Trump’s comments that American Jews would be “disloyal” for voting for Democrats in what amounted to an off-the-cuff d’var Torah, or sermon, while on the campaign trail in ...

This week Joseph, hearing that his father Jacob is on the edge of death, brings his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, to see their old grandfather. Knowing that they stand before him, his eyesight ...

For as long as a single hostage, alive or dead, remains in Gaza, the Jewish people will be incomplete. We learn this from the Parsha of Shoftim in which Hashem tells us “Tamim tihiyeh im Hashem ...

Is American Democracy, our tradition of free elections and our advancement as an enlightened society being compromised by big money in politics and an aversion to facts and rational discourse? I ...

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The Dvar Torah I gave yesterday at my grandson Shimon Greenland’s Bar Mitzvah. This week’s Parsha deals with the story of Yaakov and Esav. Esav was an Ish Yodeah Tzayid — a hunter. Yaakov was an Ish ...

With a $360 gift, restore Torah scrolls in memory of Israel’s fallen heroes — and receive a Chumash filled with their stories ...