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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 ...
What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each parent’s and child’s personality, needs, and circumstance vary so widely.
What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...
Citing eyewitnesses, the American tourist’s mom said her son was throwing back grenades from a bomb shelter.
Khalifa Haftar has been part of the Libyan political scene for more than four decades.
Using the special Yemenite chant he learned decades ago as a young boy, Moshe Hizmi recites the Haftara portion that follows the weekly Torah reading, as a hush falls over the congregation. But ...
Later, when the rabbi went on a bit too long with a sermon on the week’s haftara portion, I left services early, and Shahamifar rushed out to accompany me the first block or so before returning ...
The Haftara from Yirmiyahu 1:1-19, 2:1-3 describes the consequences that would be visited upon Israel in response to its sinfulness.
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.