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How can we spare our fellow Jews from the calamity of cremation?

From the blog of Adam Gross at The Times of Israel

By Rabbi Norman Lamm, zt’l August 28, 1954—As we welcome the month of Ellul on this very important Shabbat, I am inclined to recall how Jews of old once experienced the same event. The solemnity and sacredness that was ushered in with this penitential season, this forty-day period of teshuvah, was more than just an […]

Every day, three times a day, Jews who pray using the text coined by our sages recite a short list of G-d’s praises which was lifted from Moses’ description of

From the blog of Carol Green Ungar at The Times of Israel

Efrat, Israel – This week’s double portion records how the Jews finally cross the Jordan River on their way to conquer the Promised Land. The tribes of Gad, Reuven and half the tribe of Menashe possess a great multitude of cattle, and “paradise” for cattle is good grazing land, which happens to be what these two and a half tribes find in their present location of Trans-Jordan. They then petition Moses with a special request. “If you would grant us a favor, let this land be given to us ...

From the blog of J.J Gross at The Times of Israel

Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster reflects on the complexities of Micah 6:8 and why this verse is more relevant than ever.

Here’s my answer: everything in the story could have happened, even if it didn’t

I argued in my “Covenant and Conversation” for parshat Kedoshim that Judaism is more than an ethnicity. It is a call to holiness. In one sense, however, there is an important ethnic …