Torah

Your Investments: Estate planning lessons from the Torah - Keep wills fair and balanced - opinion

Your investments: No matter how great you think your children are, do everyone a favor, and create a will where assets are split evenly among your children.

|ByAARON KATSMAN
GEORGE FOREMAN poses before the WBC Heavyweight World Championship fight in 2011 in Hamburg, Germany.
WORDS, WORDS, WORDS.

Parashat Ki Teitzei: Words are tearing us apart

Elul is upon us. In a few weeks, we will confess our sins of the body, heart, and mind. This year, let us focus on the sins of the tongue, for they shape the confused, divided world we inhabit.

|ByMOSHE TARAGIN
The Torah reserves ‘abomination of the Lord’ precisely for this form of dishonesty.

Parashat Ki Teitzei: The hidden enemy and the open enemy

In these days of mercy and forgiveness, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, it is fitting to engage in soul-searching regarding our honesty in financial matters

|ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
Slichot at the Western Wall.

Beyond the headlines: Brought together by a soul

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

|BySIVAN RAHAV MEIR

Elul: Facing ourselves, facing one another - opinion

Elul is a deep dive into ourselves, into the hidden recesses of who we are.

AUGUST 31, 2025ByMOSHE TARAGIN
ELUL IS a deep dive into ourselves.

Remembering Rabbi Berel Wein: A beloved Jewish storyteller - opinion

Working side by side with Rabbi Wein to reimagine his book ‘Triumph of Survival’ - and the insights that stayed with me.

AUGUST 30, 2025ByALAN ROSENBAUM
RABBI BEREL WEIN, z”l, director, The Destiny Foundation; with Ashley Lazarus, film director, Destiny Films.

Beyond the headlines: Taking care of yourself

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

AUGUST 27, 2025BySIVAN RAHAV MEIR
An illustrative AI-generated image of a Torah scroll opened in an undisclosed location in outer space.

Two congregations, two opinions as Torahs hit the floor at separate NYC services

Torah scrolls are treated with such reverence that on the rare occasions that they are dropped, it becomes news, at least in the Jewish media.

AUGUST 26, 2025ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, left, teaches a class in Jewish law at Maharat, the first yeshiva to ordain women to serve as Orthodox clergy.

A nation and a story: Israel claims its destiny without shame - opinion

We must never shrink from our story. We are both a people and a faith, bound together across time, building a state grounded in both.

AUGUST 23, 2025ByMOSHE TARAGIN
'Israel stands as a rare example of a nation unashamed of its identity as an ethnic state – a country with a story.'

Parashat Re'eh: Divine consolation, both intimate and universal

'The time for consolation is now, and the path to redemption lies before us.'

AUGUST 23, 2025ByMICHAEL FREUND
Zion’s foundations will be laid with sapphires, we are reassured.

Parashat Re'eh: The gift of mercy

This is our ancestral heritage, passed down through the generations, and rooted so deeply that it is part of our very nature.

AUGUST 22, 2025ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
COMPASSION & MERCY: Haredi soldiers from the IDF Hasmonean Brigade take part in a beret march after completing seven months of basic and advanced training, at the Western Wall, Aug. 6.

Parshat Re’eh: Being engaged to God

We, the Jewish people, will find the courage to move beyond engagement, to build our home with God in Jerusalem, and to begin a new chapter in our ancient story.

AUGUST 22, 2025ByLEO DEE
PREPARING TO break the glass during a wedding ceremony: It represents a leap of faith; only once the glass is shattered can the covenant be sealed, the writer posits.

Grapevine, August 22, 2025: Brains betrayed...

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

AUGUST 22, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
MK Tally Gotliv seen during a court hearing of Yonatan Urich, at the court in Lod, August 19, 2025

Nation of soldiers or Jewish nation? Why Israel must not erase its soul - opinion

The Talmud itself debates the balance between military defense and spiritual commitment. But what we are seeing today is not a debate; it is an attempt to erase the Torah’s role in Israel’s future. 

AUGUST 14, 2025ByDOVID HOFSTEDTER
‘THE HAREDI leadership argues that it is forbidden to draft yeshiva students whose Torah is their profession and that they defend the State of Israel through their studies.’

Aliyah should not be motivated by antisemitism, alarmism - opinion

The ideal aliyah is not one made out of fear, but rather out of love and longing.

AUGUST 12, 2025BySHIMSHON HAKOHEN NADEL
NEW IMMIGRANTS from France arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport in June. Instead of fearmongering, we should be encouraging an aliyah of ideals and idealism, the writer maintains.