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 ...

There is a barbershop on Ben-Yehuda Street in Jerusalem. The unnamed narrator of Yitzhak Shalev’s novel passes it one day in the 1960s and catches the scent of an aftershave lotion he has not smelled ...

Boruch had spent Pesach in Eretz Yisrael, including a relaxing Shabbos there afterwards. Before he traveled, his chavrusa, Avrumi, had approached him with a request. “You’ll be away the whole Yom Tov, ...

The Hebrew version is a palindrome. That’s the simplest thing about the word. The first and last Hebrew letters of the world are also palindromes. Now things are starting to get less than simple. The ...

No one should be surprised that Governor Josh Shapiro is subliminally blaming Israel for the United States going to war against Iran (“Et Tu, Shapiro? Penn Gov. Hints Israel Shaped U.S. Path to Iran ...

This idea connects directly with the experience at Har Sinai of the atzilei bnei Yisrael (the distinguished ones from among the nation), a group which our Sages associate with Nadav and Avihu. There ...