This essay is one of the winning submissions to the Rabbi Sacks Essay Contest. Drawing on the teachings and writings of Rabbi ...

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Avraham Perlmutter, Ph.D. passed away peacefully on August 17, 2022, in Pacific Palisades, CA, at the age of 94. His inspirational life story was featured in the Jewish Journal on April 26, 2017.

The Torah passages and Israel's holidays are full of important messages that are relevant and empower our day-today lives. Rabbi Shai Tahan, head of the Sha'arei Ezra community and head of the Arzi ...

The stories of our holy forefathers and mothers do not just come to tell us historical facts, or even to teach us morality. These stories teach us about the qualities of the souls that existed in our ...

Avraham Aviel is one of the six torch lighters who participated in the official openeing ceremony of this year's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day. Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and ...

A story is told of a visitor to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem who is taken on a tour of the buildings named after famous Jewish writers. But the name on one building is unfamiliar to the visitor.

“It’s a collection of songs that were written as part of this journey that I’ve been on for the past, say, 10 years, that really started in South Africa where I grew up.” Shira Ben Avraham has just ...