Religion
Misconception: Due to the lack of a properly anointed king and the absence of the urim v’tumim, the defensive wars…
Beyond hanging in the sukkah, what does one actually do with a gourd?
The following essay is excerpted from "Festivals of Faith: Reflections on the Jewish Holidays" by Rabbi Norman Lamm, edited by…
Was it hard to give up his accustomed Neilah? “It’s never hard to do a mitzvah,” Cohen says.
Yom Kippur is a day of profound spiritual significance, and by taking care of your physical needs in the days…
There is a quiet revolution taking place today in classrooms and halls of study, in synagogues and homes, in Israel,…
A story is told about a yeshivah in a small village in Russia in which one particular student was…
The headlines about the Swissair tragedy have faded and other newspaper stories vie for our attention. Yet it is precisely…
A kinah for October 7 authored by Rabbi Moshe Hauer, executive vice president of the Orthodox Union.
When my wife and I were first married, we traveled to England. Attending to mundane matters upon our arrival, I…
There are few things that provoke more passion than the explosive confluence of religion and politics. It has generated and…
