There are a number of reasons why vihi noam is recited on motza’eiShabbat. One reason is the teaching that the verses of vihi noam and v’ata kadosh arouse a flow of blessing for the coming week. The ...

A little more than 50 years ago, on December 6, 1975, a makeshift Shabbat prayer service was held in the cavernous ballroom of Lincoln Square Synagogue, which was then located on West 69th Street and ...

Alan Jay Gerber, a graduate of Yeshiva University, is a life member of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Teachers and a member of Kehillas Bais Yehudah Tzvi in Cedarhurst, Long Island. This article ...

At their biennial convention, Conservative Jewish leaders called for renewing the “vital religious center” of American Judaism in the wake of numerous studies showing... Rabbi James Diamond, the ...

Brussels remains under threat of a massive terrorist attack, similar to the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris.

Dovi Meles holds a masters degree in social work from Temple University and a BA in Psychology from Yeshiva University. He has held numerous positions within Jewish non-profit organizations. In his ...

Thanks to her efforts, domestic violence is now on the national Jewish agenda. But the Rebbetzin didn’t simply raise awareness; she opened safe houses across the country, trained volunteers to provide ...

Martin Bodek is an avid marathoner, Daf Yomi participant, Wordler, vexillologist, halvah aficionado, author of parody haggadot (you may have some), and a sit-down comedian.

Gital Dodelson, the “chained” woman featured on the front page of the New York Post last fall, says she has received a get, or... Two relatives of the man who has refused to give his wife a religious ...

In Israel and in much of the Western world, we tend to think the Arab world is united in its support for the Palestinians—that it wants nothing more than to solve the Palestinian problem by giving ...

According to the Palestinian National Covenant of 1968, Zionism is a racist ideology that uses Fascist and Nazi methods to achieve its objectives. Article 22 of the Covenant describes it like this: ...

The twenty-seventh anniversary is 8/19 of what started with a tragic car accident in Crown Heights Brooklyn that Al Sharpton escalated into a full-blown pogrom against the Jews. Through this day the ...