Like a mini-series staggering to the end of its 10th season, the latest probe into the alleged murder of Yasser Arafat, the former Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader who died in Paris in … more

Tradition dictates a glass of champagne on the secular New Year. But what can give you a nice buzz to celebrate the Jewish New Year? These Rosh Hashanah drinks from “Queen of Kosher” … more

Last year, Agudath Israel’s Constituent Services department received phone calls from college students whose professors had threatened that they must attend classes on Rosh Hashana or risk … more

In the traditions of many Jewish holidays, there’s a poetic relationship between the festival’s culinary laws and the season’s foods. While the relationship linking Rosh Hashanah … more

Now that President Obama has enough senators that a veto of the bill opposing the Iran nuclear deal cannot be overturned, the postmortems have started. Some blame the president, others blame the … more

In this photo, taken on Sept. 15, 2001, a fireman signals for 10 more colleagues to join him on the World Trade Center pile. Last Monday, 23 Elul — the 14th anniversary of 9/11/01 on the Jewish … more

The biggest news story of the week was about a clerk in Kentucky with a fundamentalist understanding of the Bible. Among many reactions on social media, there was a clip from the “West … more

The Shulamith School for Girls opened the school year in the former Number Five School in Cedarhurst, occupying its own building for the first time.   The school, with 540 students from … more

It was Rav Kook, in his commentary on Psalm 27:12, who taught us the following: “The purpose of prayer is to elevate the soul by bolstering its powers with images of holiness and perfection. … more

Walking through Lviv, a Ukrainian city near the Polish border whose Jewish population is a small fraction of what it once was, it’s not uncommon to spot faded Hebrew letters on the outside of … more