Venerated Rabbonim and Poskim walked slowly, heads bent in hachnaah, as they approached the admas kodesh (holy soil) where the Chofetz Chaim is buried in the ancient Jewish cemetery Radin.  … more

CAHAL Over 100 women attended a Shavuous cooking class led by Naomi Nachman, The Aussie Gourmet, to benefit CAHAL, the community-wide special education program. Nachman demonstrated several … more

Daphna Krupp’s daily workout (excluding Shabbat) at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore has become somewhat of a ritual. “It’s the gym and the environment,” … more

Inspired by a video prepared by students at Ulpana Tehilla, a school near the Central Bus Station in Yerushalayim, SKA Juniors wrote letters of support to 11th graders there and received responses of … more

The radio squawked with commands. I took out my pen and pad out to write down a list of code words for map locations that I would need to translate into coordinates for our impromptu mission. This … more

Before Parshat Pinchas buries itself in the sacrificial order for each holiday (what becomes the Maftir reading for those days), we hear the story of Tzlafchad’s daughters. Without … more

At first glance, The New York Times’ hiring of another white, Jewish male opinion-page columnist is anything but news. But the arrival of Bret Stephens, formerly the foreign affairs … more

As the history of the Israelites in the wilderness is reviewed in Devarim, an interesting trend is presented. The nations of Eisav, Moav and Ammon are treated as closer than brothers with … more

On March 26, 1979, the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt was signed in Washington. But it almost never happened. President Jimmy Carter tried to scuttle the talks when Anwar Sadat said he would … more