Spirituality

Terror down under: Why terrorists pick Jewish holidays for antisemitic attacks - opinion

The shape of the menorah – and of the hanukkiah – teaches us that while we all may be diverse branches, we derive from a common base, and are all guided by a light from above.

A Hanukkah menorah.
 Neanderthal communities in prehistoric Europe. How were they linked? (Illustrative)

Neanderthals were selectively targeted for cannibalism in Ice Age Europe, study reveals - study

Former hostage Bar Kupershtein and dozens of Jewish men lay tefillin at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, October 31, 2025.

Israel’s ‘thirsty souls’: Why we should welcome Jews experiencing a spiritual renaissance - opinion

Jeryko  kicks off his tour on November 16 at Gray in Tel Aviv.

Jeryko to ‘break down walls with sound’ in global Israel premieres - preview


For my son on his bar mitzvah

“Ironically, because you have been blessed with such good fortune, your struggle in life becomes even harder. Your struggle is not to get but to be. To be is harder.”

‘I READ everything from Stephen King to Soren Kierkegaard.’

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A Tower of Light: Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman

I asked people where to find the yeshiva? The talmud torah? Where can I find the kids? They told me I would find them in the disco.”

Migdal Ohr founder Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman

PARASHAT VAYISHLAH: Timna – The price of rejection

Why should the chronicles of Esau interest someone learning the Bible?

‘JOSHUA FIGHTING Amalek,’ print from the Phillip Medhurst Collection of Bible illustrations at St. George’s Court.

IN PLAIN LANGUAGE: Crying for Judaism

When is the last time you cried for something Jewish?

A CANDIDATE for conversion, having successfully passed, tearfully recites the ‘Shema’ prayer.

Following King David's lead: The artist Baruch Nachshon

Reciting King David’s Psalms, Nachshon got more than he asked for. The painter experienced an ecstatic state, a glimpse of what he describes as the perfection of the universe.

ARTIST BARUCH NACHSHON painting in his studio.

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Book Review: Getting our godliness back

Shay’s charming, thoughtful, thought-provoking new book required even more chutzpah.

SCOTT SHAY has also recruited some non-Jewish theologians, whose insights ‘deepen his book - and broaden his platform.’

Is regular tefillin wearing key to preventing heart attacks?

The Jewish morning ritual might have a very positive affect on your blood flow.

  A Jewish worshipper wears Tefillin as he prays at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City March 8, 2012. Tefillin, leather straps and boxes containing sacred parchments, are worn by Orthodox Jewish men during morning prayer

Just a thoght: On 'teshuva'

Teshuva is counterintuitive.

Tzedakah box, Charleston, 1820