Peoples, Nationalities & Cultures

He spoke with pride in the very room that filled his predecessors with fear. His words were a clarion call for Jews who came away feeling that something that needed saying for a long time had just gotten off their chest.

"If you want to make it with people," Prager said, "don't talk to them about their work or politics. Speak about their hobbies and their families."

The teachers' manual "The People of Israel are Alive" is being tested in the eighth grade class of the Ohr Avner Chabad-Lubavitch Day School in Dneprodzerzhinsk, Russia

What they didn't tell us that you're not necessarily entitled to happiness--your right is merely to pursue it...

Reflections on the place of G-d in American society

"Six thousand people applied to appear on the show, and not a single one was Jewish!" She asked me to help her understand this phenomenon. "After all" she noted, "wasn't it the Jews who survived the Holocaust?"

Ramon's journey is more than just another feel-good story for a country desperate for some good news. Rather it's an inspiring example of one man who senses the importance of Jewish identity

Usually, a person dies, and then their soul shines down on us from heaven. It is rare that a spirit shines down on us from heaven, and then dies

There were others who traveled to space, but no one ever carried anything like his kind of baggage. You could say that he took an entire people—3400 years of history included—to the heavens.

Just as I greeted all the service members in the lounge with a loud “Merry Christmas,” I heard someone say, “Are you Jewish?” in a Southern accent.