Even in the Galilee and the Golan with its breathtaking greenery, a spot with lush greenery and rushing streams is highly unusual in Israel, a…
Even in the Galilee and the Golan with its breathtaking greenery, a spot with lush greenery and rushing streams is highly unusual in Israel, a…
“You shall not cook a kid in its mother’s milk” (Shemot 23:19). The Talmud (Chullin 115b) explains the Biblical verse above as prohibiting the consumption…
One hundred national lay and rabbinic leaders of the Orthodox Union traveled to the nation’s capital this past May for the OU’s annual Leadership Mission…
Now that fall has arrived, we can switch gears and focus on slightly heartier, though still nutritious and eclectic, recipes.
“No part of the human personality should be excluded from Jewish expression” (Rabbi Avraham Yitzchok HaKohen Kook’s introduction to Song of Songs). Indeed, while halachah…
In my Jewish Perspectives on the Experience of Suffering, I wrote that those who place truth over happiness often get both, while those who choose…
I inherit a small gilt-edged book of prayers from my grandmother
Two of the leading proponents of intelligent design (ID) are the mathematician and philosopher Professor William Dembski, at the Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and…
Are “Orthodox” and “creative” mutually exclusive? Is it an accident that three very prestigious awards were won in recent years by Orthodox Jews
Haim Sabato, who descends from a long line of rabbis from Aleppo, Syria, was born in Cairo, but was forced to leave as a child…