Parashat Shemot, which opens the second book of the Torah, recounts the suffering of the Israelites in Egypt.

Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites, condemned the desecration of the site and the unprecedented act, claiming he acted against halacha (Jewish law) by ascending the ...

Other members of the Jewish community opposing the police decision include Rabbi Jeffrey Newman, writer and director Adam ...

While everyone makes mistakes, a leader whose decisions stem from rashness and haste can spell disaster for his people – and ...

By the time the bill was paid, she’d invited Ryan home. Her friends, including her Rabbi Sharon Brous, discouraged her, worried for her safety. But Hanne refused to listen; Ryan stayed in her ...

The new year arrived with news of a terrorist attack in the United States. A man with Islamist sympathies drove a truck into a crowd in New Orleans on Wednesday morning, killing 15 and injuring dozens ...

"Forgive us our trespasses: grant us your peace" is Pope Francis' theme for the World Day of Peace, today, Jan. 1, 2025. His plea is for a year blessed by forgiveness — forgiveness between ...

The escalation of antisemitism in the wake of the Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terror massacre in Israel has paved the way for attacks on Jewish communities around the world ...

Rabbi Matthew Bellas, a prominent Olney, MD rabbi who is the Lower School Principal at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, has died. Bellas passed away Monday, December 30th, according to several ...

standing by our side in this struggle with the torch of freedom in their hands,” Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, rabbi of the Western Wall and holy sites said. “In this fight — against a culture of ...

Rabbi Gamliel Rabinowitz spins a Dreidel on the third night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, in Beit Shemesh on December 26, 2016. (credit: YAAKOV LEDERMAN/FLASH90) According to the 19th-century ...