For our Torah studies this year, therefore, week by week we will seek to discover how all of Torah prepared the way for the coming Messiah. This week, our Bible study takes us to the end of Exodus. It ...

Shavuot is the festival that celebrates the giving and the receiving of Torah. The theological pillar of the festival is revelation. Revelation of the words of Torah and a revelation that continues to ...

(RNS) — The six-hour online Torah-fest may be a harbinger of the kinds of creative changes in Jewish communal life resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. (RNS) — On the eve of Shavuot, the Jewish ...

This blog is written in memory of Mr. Izaak Sturm, who passed away on July 10, 2019. His kindness, faith and strength through years of suffering endure as a guiding beacon for his family and community ...

In Torah Tutor, Rabbi Lenore Bohm draws on a lifetime of teaching about the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, starting with Genesis. Early reviewers of the book praise the timeliness of ...

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Rav Shteinman gave a surprising answer. Every morning, we say birchas haTorah, the blessing regarding Torah study. This bracha is one of the few Biblical berachos. (The only other ones are the ...

Unfortunately, the Jewish world in recent years has been shocked by news of rabbis and religious leaders engaging in financial or sexual impropriety. May one study the sefarim, or listen to the ...

When the Torah scroll is being carried, and also when it is lifted up, everyone who sees it must stand until the scroll is ...

Torah study and prayer are decidedly low-tech ventures, but the rise in popularity of handheld multimedia devices like the iPod, PalmPilot and Treo Smartphone has brought a 21st century edge to ...