In the Mishnah, a collection of Jewish oral laws compiled by Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi around 200 CE, we read, ‘Whoever saves one life, it is as if they have saved an entire world’. This profound teaching ...

The answer lies in the sukkah’s role as the ultimate common space in Jewish tradition. It is the space where we are all ...

The sukkah we build and whose ancestral history we celebrate each harvest season serves as a temporary reminder of where we ...

He takes the reader on a dazzling historical tour of all those before and after Maharal who objected to the second class status of the study of Tanach and the monopoly that Gemara held over the hours ...

Truth be told, they don’t and the same holds true for Ultra Orthodox, Modern Orthodox, Chabad/Chassidic, Conservative, Reform ...

The highlight of the Yom Kippur service in the time of the Beit Hamikdash was the High Priest entering the Holy of Holies, in ...

That which we have managed to repair we may love more than what has always been intact. The cracks that we’ve repaired cause ...

A popular Bundist pamphlet written by Shmuel Gozhansky in 1897 on behalf of the General Jewish Labor Bund in the Russian ...

More than Yom Kippur expresses our faith in God, it is the expression of God’s faith in us.

Some 75 people gathered at Congregation Kadimah-Toras Moshe, a nearly 85-year-old Modern Orthodox synagogue in Brighton, Mass ...

Should gender-separated prayers be allowed in Tel Aviv's famed public space? This year calls us to ask a different question ...

Bonnie Pomper, whose nephew Hersh Goldberg-Polin was executed by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, told JNS that studying the Mishnah made her appreciate “mundane” prayers she has said by “rote.” ...