Rabbi Yosef Blau recently penned an open letter signed by 80 Diaspora rabbis calling into question Israel’s moral clarity in its war against Hamas. Their attacks on Israel’s sterling humanitarian ...

Read The Haftara Handbook: Lessons from the Prophets for the Contemporary Jew. You’ll be glad you did. Yocheved Golani is the author of E-book “It’s MY Crisis!

We will bentch Rosh Chodesh this Shabbat and announce the coming month – Rosh Chodesh Elul yihyeh machar b’yom Rishon uvyom ...

Our haftara relates to idol worship, but it also struggles with the abandonment of God owing to the feeling that the world is a place of chance, and therefore a person must put his trust ...

Israel is most assuredly the chosen nation. But once the Haftara reading gets started, we seem to take on a brand new and far less flattering identity: that of the chattering people.

Reviewed Work: "The Spanish Haftara for the Ninth of Ab", Jewish Quarterly Review, N. Ser., Vol. XLVIII:1 Alan D. Cobré Defining philology in its broadest sense, Romance Philology is broad and deep in ...

The Shabbat after Tisha B'Av is called Shabbat Nachamu, after the haftara that is read: "Nachamu, nachamu ami" (Be comforted, be comforted my people).

The verses before the haftara describe the degree of famine created by the siege: “And there was a great famine in the city, for they were besieging it, until a donkey’s head cost eighty ...