I was 20 at the time of my first escape attempt. It was unsuccessful – someone had informed the authorities of my plan – and I was sent home from the Czech - German border, back to my prison of ...

Elul asks something subtler of us: introspection, to notice where we have drifted and begin walking back before the Day of ...

Friday, the New York City Health Department released its first comprehensive evaluation of the Congestion Relief Zone Tolling ...

Senior NYPD officials have, in recent years, traveled to Israel for training conferences by the Israeli National Police on counterterrorism and antisemitism. City Council Speaker Julie Menin has said ...

For a brief period – a mere 30 days – the King of kings comes out to offer each of us a personal invitation to embark on a new journey together.

Among the many documents that pass through the hands of collectors, every so often one encounters an item that is far more than simply a piece of paper. It is a window into a moment in Jewish history ...

Parshat Shoftim always coincides with the beginning of the month of Elul. The Rokeach (Shir HaShirim 6:3) says "Elul" (the letters aleph lamed vav lamed) are an abbreviation for "Ani le'Dodi ve'Dodi ...

The juxtaposition in the Torah of the laws of Shabbat and the Mishkan, the Sanctuary, not only serves to identify the 39 melachot prohibited on Shabbat but also determines the conditions that must ...

Dovi Meles holds a masters degree in social work from Temple University and a BA in Psychology from Yeshiva University. He has held numerous positions within Jewish non-profit organizations. In his ...

Our daf continues the discussion of forbidden mixtures of foods and associated problems encountered. We center on a ...

Maimonides taught that the gate to eternal life is the intellect. A soul is saved, in his account, by what it manages to know, and the highest human achievement is the perfected mind. It is a ...

Rabbi Klein responds: Fascinating! That seems to reflect what I wrote – how the names Frida and Freyda are often conflated. And you tied it in to Shlomit, even though in my article I connected it to ...