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 Rabbi Yehuda Altein is a writer, translator and editor specializing in Jewish subjects and handwritten family material. A former researcher for JLI’s Machon Shmuel Research Institute, he has written on Jewish history, scriptural exegesis, halachah, and chassidut. Yehuda resides in Brooklyn, N.Y., with his family and enjoys collecting antique Judaica and exploring natural history in the Torah.
Read about the heroes, sages, and ordinary people who have forever left their imprint on how we celebrate the Jewish New Year
Get to know one of Judaism’s best-known but least-understood texts.
Goldstein, Schapiro, Landau, Posner, Isaacs, Schwartz, Weiss, Moskowitz, Goldberg, Rosenberg … the list goes on.
A kippah is a head-covering traditionally worn by Jewish men and boys as a sign of reverence and respect to G‑d.
As some synagogues are slowly reopening, let’s take a look at this staple of Jewish life.
Ready to challenge some things you think you always knew? Let's go!
The Jewish calendar is the structure upon which all Jewish holidays are based. It follows the lunar cycle, which means that the year is comprised of 12 lunar months (of approximately 29.5 days each).
Terah (also spelled Terach) was the father of Abraham, the first Patriarch of the Jewish nation. Although Terah worshipped idols and raised his family in the idolatrous city of Haran, his son Abraham independently recognized the existence of one true G‑d,...
An Interview With Dr. Yaakov Brawer
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are known as the High Holidays. Many wonder about the inner meaning of the Jewish New Year and how we can approach it. To this end, we turned to Dr. Yaakov Brawer, well-known Chassidic scholar and lecturer and longtime profess...
What has been published is only a small fraction of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak’s writings.
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