Sefer Bamidbar is also known as Chumash HaPekudim by Chazal (Yoma 68b) because it features numerous censuses of Am Yisrael, each male between ages twenty and sixty being counted. The census was a ...

There is a gubernatorial election in New York in little more than six months. If you did not know that, you’re in good company. According to the latest Siena Research Institute poll, an astonishing 64 ...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul intends to opt into the federal government’s new school-choice scholarship program that goes into effect in 2027, marking a major victory for Jewish advocacy groups who ...

When Kibbutz Lavi’s furniture company agreed to take on restoration work on a synagogue in Germany, what they didn't know was that their own kibbutz members are direct descendants of the synagogue’s ...

David Harris has been Executive director of AJC since 1990. He is one of the Jewish people’s foremost leaders and spokesmen. Observing the need for a truly global advocate for Jewish concerns and ...

Rabbi David Fohrman is the dean of Aleph Beta Academy. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University, and was a lead writer and editor for ArtScroll's Talmud translation project. Aleph Beta creates videos ...

Born in the small town of Byerazino, near Minsk within the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire, the family of Chana (Hanna) Rovina (1888-1980), like most Jewish households in the region, lived ...

Nvidia is ramping up its presence in Israel with a major real estate move that will see the U.S.-based tech leader take over 10 more floors in the Rubinstein Twin Towers (also known as TOU Towers) in ...

To be sure, there were complex freedom of speech and religion issues in play – the case involved a Christian counselor who argued that the law violated the First Amendment. Indeed, the Court’s Opinion ...

Eucalyptus project under construction in Beit Shemesh. When war breaks out in Israel, many people assume housing prices will collapse. In reality, that rarely happens – especially in Jerusalem. When ...

Few thinkers of the eighteenth century exercised a wider or more transformative influence than Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), whose philosophy and thinking marked the end of the Age of Reason and ...

In the wake of the October 7 atrocities, a shocking chorus of rationalizations, equivocations and outright celebrations erupted – not from jihadist strongholds but from Ivy League campuses, ...