Bronze sculpture of an ibex from Iran, 1st millennium BCE. Fishes are not named in either sedra – only the requirement of having fins and scales. Be aware that fish can have different types of scales ...

In Va’etchanan, we declared the Shema: “Hear, O Israel…” A moment of thunder and tenderness, of inheritance wrapped in presence. In Eikev, we continue it, not in recitation, but in enactment. Here, in ...

In his new books, Rabbi Yosef Weisenfeld eloquently addresses these questions and more while also making the reader rethink the concept of facing “mizrach.” For example, one will be surprised to learn ...

Have you ever considered how words, like people, change over time? Take “catastrophe.” Originally, in ancient Greek theater, it signified the climactic “overturning” or resolution of a play – often ...

Catastrophe is not just crisis – it’s the unraveling of what we thought held us together. It’s the illness, the heartbreak, the devastating loss, the moment we realize things will never return to the ...

Occasionally, when I’m introduced to someone, and the person introducing me says, “He writes a column in The Jewish Press about antique Judaica,” I receive the response “That’s you?! How do you know ...

“Our relationship has seen ups and downs, but for quite some time now, it has stabilized and is moving in a very positive direction,” said Israeli Ambassador to Poland Yaakov Finkelstein in an ...

The IDF says the 98th Commando Division began renewed activities in northern Gaza this week and is now operating in Gaza City alongside the 162nd Division. Gazans living in Jabaliya and Gaza City were ...

More than 100 anti-Israel vandals inflicted more than $1.1 million in damage to Ukrainian military equipment during a raid this week on a Belgian defense facility. The activists from the “Stop Arming ...

Svein Tore Holsether, CEO of Yara International, one of the world’s largest fertilizer producers, told the Financial Times on Sunday that global fertilizer markets have been “extremely volatile over ...

Sam Sutton might not speak much but Silent Sam is good at posing for pictures in the Senate hallway. Tuesday, May 27 officially began a new career for Sam Sutton, the first Sephardic Jew to be elected ...