DRS’s fourth color war competition, staged before Pesach, was different, with each grade for themselves. Events began with intense games of musical chairs and Simon Says, which came down to the … more

The catastrophic numbers of drug users, deaths and overdoses only pale to the nightmare of a 90 percent relapse rate. This plague has not passed over the Jewish … more

At Sukkot, joy is not an option, it’s a requirement. People continue to suffer from natural disasters, repression and genocide, and America is reeling from the unfathonable act of a man who … more

On March 31, one of my best friends, Sarah Portlock Fellman, collapsed at work after an aneurysm ruptured in her brain. She was seven months pregnant and had been in the newsroom at The Wall Street Journal, where she was working as an editor. … more

What was to be a 12-hour trek from JFK airport in Queens to Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv became a nearly 27-hour test of endurance for passengers aboard an El Al flight, including Rabbi Dovid … more

Five Midreshet Shalhevet delegates — seniors Hadassah Fertig and Nechama Schneider; juniors Shifra Chait, Chaya Roffe, and Tamar Waronker, along with faculty adviser Ira Schildkraut — … more

Kindergarten students at the HAFTR Lower School marked Yom Yerushalayim by building walls around Jerusalem’s Old City. They listened to the story of the Eight Gates … more

Rabbinic literature includes the names and teachings of many great and well-known sages. Yet, the rabbi who is mentioned most often in our liturgy is Rabbi Chanania ben Akashya — an obscure … more

For generations, lighting the Chanukah candles together has been the stuff of lifelong memories. But today’s far-flung families are increasingly challenged to share the experience. … more

The video, with suspenseful music playing in the background, opens with footage of a crowd of Orthodox Jews. Then it paraphrases a classic poem about the Holocaust. “First they came … more