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Decades after defying the Soviet Union, Touro Faculty Rabbi Josef Mendelevich brings his story to a new audience with his ...
The powerful picture honors the Oklahoma City Thunder’s first NBA Championship, a historic and powerful milestone that comes in the same year as the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City ...
Though the Shulchan Aruch agrees with the Rambam’s broad prohibition, his final clause might offer some room for an answer. It is permitted to note the beauty of an idolator if the focus of the comm ...
The story Jesus offered in reply to the scholar’s question is well-known to many inside and outside of Christian circles. The ...
Resilience is not just a national slogan, it is a lived tradition.
From the beginning HFLS has lent to both Jews and non-Jews. Borrowers must have a guarantor who meets income requirements.
The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for Trinity 4 in Year C is Luke 10.25-37, most commonly known as the Parable of the Good ...
In our Gemara, the gentile lacks Torah knowledge and defers to his landlord. The Samaritan, with partial knowledge, believes he knows better—and thus disrespects the Jewish tradition. His small dose ...
President Donald Trump says he didn’t know the term “shylock” is considered antisemitic when he used it in a speech to describe unscrupulous moneylenders. Trump told ...
In the parable of the Good Samaritan, found in Luke 10:25-37, a Jewish man is traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho and is robbed of everything he had and is beaten to within an inch of his life.
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said, ‘I believe Israel has a right to exist and it has a right to exist also with equal rights for all’ Zohran Mamdani, a leading Democratic candidate in New ...
Why is there a Jewish practice to bury prayer books and other texts that contain God's name? A rabbi offers the mystical ...