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By the Numbers
14 Rashi Facts You Should Know

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki was the most important commentator on Talmud and Torah of all times. Living in France and Germany, he left an indelible mark on Ashkenazi scholarship and culture.
10 Questions: Take the Jewish Timeline Quiz

Did David come before Deborah? Did the Tabernacle come after the Temple? Do you know the Chachamim from the Chassidim? This is your chance to test your Jewish timeline mettle.
17 Rosh Hashanah Facts Every Jew Should Know

Brush up on basic facts, traditions, and more associated with the Jewish New Year.
Issues
Understanding Domestic Abuse

Abuse can exist anywhere. There’s no community, ethnicity or background that’s free of it.
Upping the Spiritual Dose

We pray to G‑d to help us experience Him and feel Him in a way that relates to our experience.
How to Take Teruma and Maaser

Before partaking in produce grown in the Holy Land, one must separate tithes. Here is how it is done nowadays.
Focus on Teshuva
Returning to G-d, Each Year and Every Day

Teshuvah gives us a new understanding of the essential depth of a mitzvah, of how deeply they are bound up in our own souls, and how deeply they connect us with G‑d.
Parshah
Get Anxious

On the final day of his life, Moses rejoiced when the people worried that the Levites would keep the Torah to themselves. This provides us with a lesson on how to approach our own Judaism.
The Wonder Doctor

Both men were so upset by their new circumstances that they refused to pay the doctor for his services. They argued that all he brought them was grief.
Video
Farbrengen - 18 Elul

Highlights of a farbrengen celebrating Chai Elul, the birthday of the Baal Shem Tov and the Alter Rebbe, with original narration by photographer Levi Yitzchak Freidin.
How to Paint a Mezuzah

Watch an art video showing how to make a beautiful painting of a Mezuzah.
Reinventing Herself to Share Mental Health Awareness

Chaya Rochel Zimmerman is a mother of 11 and a grandmother to many. She has become an author of novels in order to bring awareness about mental health, immigration, and other societal issues.
On the Passing of Queen Elizabeth II
Farewell, Queen Elizabeth

She was the closest we could get to the paradigm of royalty, the closest we could point to as a textbook case of the “king” we read about in Jewish literature.
Voices
The Rebbe and the Little Girl With a Cast

What mattered to me was my broken arm. And at that moment, that was all that mattered to the Rebbe as well.
Lifestyle
Moroccan Cooked Carrot Salad

Blue resembles the sea, and the sea resembles heaven, and heaven resembles the Divine throne
— Talmud, Sotah 17a
Print Magazine

The sages say that all is in the hands of heaven except for the awe of heaven.

Which puts all the power in your hands.

Because if there is no awe of heaven, heaven is bankrupt. It owns nothing—not you, not your world, not anything at all.

That being so, the greatest power you have is your ability to surrender the delus...