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As Simhat Torah approaches and the celebration of Torah will be felt in synagogues and communities around the world, I wish to address my experience as a woman studying Torah.

The Torah transforms a gray and dreary life to an exalted and sacred existence.

Aaron Demsky, professor emeritus of Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, has dedicated his professional life to the study of Jewish names.

Traveling in Portugal.

Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook made aliyah two months prior to Herzl’s death and was appointed rabbi of Jaffa and the colonies. As part of his position he was requested to eulogize Herzl.

Had he been around to see the installation go up, Viktor Frankl would, no doubt, not have been surprised by the survivors’ sunny philosophy.

In the months leading up to Passover, Yad Vashem received several artifacts relating to how Jews kept true to their tradition.

Whatever one’s take on the recent elections, I found just the right way to begin the next day with a model Passover seder at Ulpan Etzion.

The making of The Producers is one of the most interesting parts of Funny Man, Patrick McGilligan’s highly detailed but disappointingly pedestrian new biography of Brooks.

We have the freedom to choose what we do, and we should value this and teach the beauty of it to the next generation.