Abulafia describes the initial encounter with prophetic awareness and how it impacts the recipient. The “use” that can be made of prophecy is highly contingent upon the preparation and training of the ...

On Shabbat, when I can’t read my X feed, I usually read the newspaper and magazines, and recently I was reading a local magazine we get in our mailbox once a month. On one of the last pages, a small ...

“No one should be surprised by the ADL’s report that revealed over 20% of Zohran Mamdani’s transition team members hold extremist views and have ties with notoriously antisemitic organizations.

There was once a public debate between a rabbi and an astrophysicist regarding the nature of our universe. The astrophysicist, representing the atheist perspective, confidently approached the podium ...

Across more than two millennia, separated by oceans and empires, two small copper coins have told a remarkably similar story about money, value, and what society chooses to preserve even when ...

The Jewish Press published an article expressing a powerful and sympathetic defense of people who request a “private shiva” (“A Private Shiva? Comforting a Subject, Not Handling an Object,” by Rabbi ...

Zohran Mamdani during a campaign event in the Queens borough of New York City, on June 19. New York stands on the edge of a moral and political precipice. If Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor, it will ...

When I was in elementary school, our choir performed and recorded (on LP) a song called “Everybody Loves Saturday Night.” To show the universality of that sentiment we sang it in four different ...

Bronze sculpture of an ibex from Iran, 1st millennium BCE. Fishes are not named in either sedra – only the requirement of having fins and scales. Be aware that fish can have different types of scales ...

In the financial world, few things offer more comfort than receiving a large sum of cash. The challenge is how to handle a windfall responsibly based on the markets, economic environment, and personal ...

Booby-trapped tunnel shaft uncovered by IDF combat engineers. While mainstream media are focused on events in Iran, IDF soldiers are continuing Iron Sword operations in Gaza as they work to dismantle ...

Question: What do Marion Anderson, Pete Seeger, John Lennon, Woody Gutherie, Harry Belafonte, and Bob Dylan all have in common? Marion Anderson’s signature on a 1955 Israel Philharmonic program.