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Acharei-Kedoshim
By the Numbers
14 Facts About Jews and Chess
Played across cultures and continents by children, grandmasters, and everyone in between, it has captured the attention of Jewish minds across the ages.
Played across cultures and continents by children, grandmasters, and everyone in between, it has captured the attention of Jewish minds across the ages.
Blog
Mazel Tov! The 12 Pesukim Turn 50
This week marks 50 years since the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, launched the “12 Pesukim” initiative.
This week marks 50 years since the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, launched the “12 Pesukim” initiative.
Your Questions
Why Do We Face East When Praying? Or Do We?
Even when our compass or map shows that Jerusalem is to the east of our location, we still may end up facing another direction. Sounds confusing? Let’s start from the beginning.
Even when our compass or map shows that Jerusalem is to the east of our location, we still may end up facing another direction. Sounds confusing? Let’s start from the beginning.
The Freeman Files
Because We’re All One
If we are a religion, then some Jews are more Jewish, others less Jewish, and many not at all. Perhaps nothing has been as detrimental to the Jewish people as the modern idea that Judaism is a religion.
If we are a religion, then some Jews are more Jewish, others less Jewish, and many not at all. Perhaps nothing has been as detrimental to the Jewish people as the modern idea that Judaism is a religion.
Halachah for Life
What a Kohen Needs to Know About Ritual Impurity
Practically, a Kohen must be careful not to become ritually impure through exposure to a dead body.
Practically, a Kohen must be careful not to become ritually impure through exposure to a dead body.
Voices
The Day I Chose Shabbat and Kosher Over My Baseball Career
In the days leading up to the game, I felt backed into a corner, forced to choose between keeping Shabbat and being there for my team during the first away game of the season.
In the days leading up to the game, I felt backed into a corner, forced to choose between keeping Shabbat and being there for my team during the first away game of the season.
The Boy From Moscow
The tefillin he once put on in hiding, he now checked and treasured for a new generation of committed young men.
The tefillin he once put on in hiding, he now checked and treasured for a new generation of committed young men.
Parshah
Where Do Ethics Come From?
Should we clone people? Is there such a thing as a life not worth living? When is it correct to go to war? But the real question is: on what biases do we answer these ethical dilemmas?
Should we clone people? Is there such a thing as a life not worth living? When is it correct to go to war? But the real question is: on what biases do we answer these ethical dilemmas?
One who begins a good deed is told to finish the job
— Jerusalem Talmud, Pesachim 10:5
Print Magazine
Naturally, we think of the Jewish people as a conglomerate of many Jews. But the Baal Shem Tov saw the Jewish people as a single, indivisible whole.
Think of a geometrical point. A point is indivisible, but not because it is too hard, too big, or too small to cut up. A point simply has no area to be divided. That’...
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