Torah

Parashat Bo: The world is catching up, again

'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' was a crude forgery that peddled the myth of a clandestine Jewish cabal manipulating institutions under the guise of doing good.

Gold.
Promises.

Parashat Bo: Promises must be kept

A protester waves the pre-Islamic Revolution Iranian flag outside UN headquarters during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran in New York on January 15, 2026.

Beyond the Headlines: Stronger than we think

Argentina's President Javier Milei speaks after the La Libertad Avanza party won the midterm election, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 26, 2025.

Milei says Bible shows 'where woke-ism leads' in Davos, urges return to Judeo-Christian roots


Beyond the headlines: Where will you be for the holiday prayer?

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news

The sign at the entrance to the Old City

Your Investments: Estate planning lessons from the Torah - Keep wills fair and balanced - opinion

Your investments: No matter how great you think your children are, do everyone a favor, and create a will where assets are split evenly among your children.

GEORGE FOREMAN poses before the WBC Heavyweight World Championship fight in 2011 in Hamburg, Germany.

Parashat Ki Teitzei: Words are tearing us apart

Elul is upon us. In a few weeks, we will confess our sins of the body, heart, and mind. This year, let us focus on the sins of the tongue, for they shape the confused, divided world we inhabit.

WORDS, WORDS, WORDS.

Parashat Ki Teitzei: The hidden enemy and the open enemy

In these days of mercy and forgiveness, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, it is fitting to engage in soul-searching regarding our honesty in financial matters

The Torah reserves ‘abomination of the Lord’ precisely for this form of dishonesty.

Beyond the headlines: Brought together by a soul

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

Slichot at the Western Wall.

Elul: Facing ourselves, facing one another - opinion

Elul is a deep dive into ourselves, into the hidden recesses of who we are.

ELUL IS a deep dive into ourselves.

Remembering Rabbi Berel Wein: A beloved Jewish storyteller - opinion

Working side by side with Rabbi Wein to reimagine his book ‘Triumph of Survival’ - and the insights that stayed with me.

RABBI BEREL WEIN, z”l, director, The Destiny Foundation; with Ashley Lazarus, film director, Destiny Films.

Beyond the headlines: Taking care of yourself

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

 An illustrative AI-generated image of a Torah scroll opened in an undisclosed location in outer space.

Two congregations, two opinions as Torahs hit the floor at separate NYC services

Torah scrolls are treated with such reverence that on the rare occasions that they are dropped, it becomes news, at least in the Jewish media.

 Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, left, teaches a class in Jewish law at Maharat, the first yeshiva to ordain women to serve as Orthodox clergy.

A nation and a story: Israel claims its destiny without shame - opinion

We must never shrink from our story. We are both a people and a faith, bound together across time, building a state grounded in both.

'Israel stands as a rare example of a nation unashamed of its identity as an ethnic state – a country with a story.'