US special envoy Steve Witkoff says Hamas’s response to his hostage deal proposal is “totally unacceptable and only takes us backward.” “Hamas should accept the framework proposal we put ...

This week, we open the Book of Bamidbar, literally, In the Wilderness. It’s a book about movement and chaos, about people seeking structure, purpose, and home in the vast unknown. The parasha ...

This week’s Parshah, Parshat Bamidbar, begins the fourth of the five Chumashim that comprise the Torah, and is the last of the Chumashim, according to many commentaries, to be spoken with the ...

Why are deserts so important within Jewish tradition? So important, in fact, that the Torah was given to us in a desert — something we remember every year on the festival of Shavuot, which we ...

Rick Lupert, a poet, songleader and graphic designer, is the author of 28 books including “God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion.” Visit him at www.JewishPoetry.net ...

Thus we find that, uniquely among holidays, the date of Shavuot is not fixed at all and is in fact set by the Sanhedrin. Rav Friedman explains that the true greatness of the Torah can only be ...

At the beginning of Bamidbar, we see a counting of each male, head by head. The commentators debate the merit of counting each person when in Jewish tradition, there is strong merit in the collective.

Joseph Patrick Neumeyer appeared in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday, where the 28-year-old, dual U.S.-German citizen was charged with threatening to kill U.S. President Donald Trump and ...

In parashat “Behar,” at the end of the verse that prohibits charging interest on a loan, it says: “And let your brother live with you” (Leviticus 25:36). Many laws and halachic principles ...

This week, I am tackling the very difficult topic of the ad infinitum slavery of those from the nations around us in this week’s parshat behar. It is a legacy which has ramifications for us today.

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The middle of the section of the ‘rebuke’ the ‘Tochachah’, contained in this week’s Parshah, Bechukotai, forewarned the Jewish people telling of the future exiles of the Jews. It ...