Rabbi Naftali Silberberg is a writer, editor, and director of the curriculum department at the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. Rabbi Silberberg resides in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife Chaya Mushka and ...

Michelle Mond from Baltimore, MD is a licensed Esthetician by profession, and is currently working as a busy wife and mother. In her extra time she works as a shadchan for young men and women all over ...

The author (right) in shul with his father’s first cousin Larry Ciment. The plaque behind them is dedicated to the author’s grandparents and the one on the right to Larry Ciment’s parents. I have a ...

In the financial world, few things offer more comfort than receiving a large sum of cash. The challenge is how to handle a windfall responsibly based on the markets, economic environment, and personal ...

Many of the slogans chanted by antisemitic mobs on university campuses and in major cities following the October 7, 2023, atrocities – “genocide… starvation ...

The Mishna (Sanhedrin 9:1) states that a murderer receives his death penalty via sayif (execution via sword, one of the four methods that a Jewish court would carry ...

IAF Boeing F-15I Ra'am fighter jet. IDF aircraft carried out more at least 20 bombing runs in southern Lebanon on Thursday in a mission to destroy Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure that posed a ...

The Council of Ulema (scientific-theologians) of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (DUM) of the Russian Federation last week issued a fatwa allowing Muslims of the Russian Federation to enter up ...

Abu Muhammed al-Julani (Ahmed al-Shara'a), Syria's president. The Islamist regime of Ahmad al-Shara’a in Damascus has declared war on Iran’s proxy in Lebanon, the Hezbollah terrorist army, with ...

Bronze sculpture of an ibex from Iran, 1st millennium BCE. Fishes are not named in either sedra – only the requirement of having fins and scales. Be aware that fish can have different types of scales ...

Even though the title of this column is “Torah by the Numbers,” we’re starting this week with a look at the end of Chanukah and the three tragedies commemorated on the 8 th, 9 th, and 10 th of this ...

IDF fighter in southern Lebanon. Suhil Bahij Gharb, the head of military intelligence for southern Lebanon, reportedly provided Hezbollah with sensitive information obtained from a security control ...