Living in Rochester, N.Y., Lauren Deutsch is the executive director of Disability Law United, a national legal services organization. She teaches topics in Jewish thought, and studies at Midreshet ...

Before we get to Lech Lecha, let’s take a look at the timespan of the whole Torah as compared to Parshat Bereishit and Parshat Noach. We will not count the first two pesukim – “Bereishit bara…” and “V ...

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 ...

The Dutchess County Conservative Party was promoting a new governor for next year. The sign “Retire Hochul” said it all. In a bucolic setting at the northern end of the Metro-North’s Hudson line, ...

For nearly two decades, Hamas – a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization – ruled the Gaza Strip, a sizable part of historic Palestine. An offshoot of Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood – which ...

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 ...

There are moments in the life of a bookseller that stir the soul in a way only rare manuscripts can. This past week, one such moment occurred when I had the opportunity to acquire a fascinating and ...

Occasionally, when I’m introduced to someone, and the person introducing me says, “He writes a column in The Jewish Press about antique Judaica,” I receive the response “That’s you?! How do you know ...

All 14 Jews the Iranian regime arrested have been released, Iranian opposition activists and journalists told JNS, after news reports last week that the Islamic Republic arrested some 600 people ...

Svein Tore Holsether, CEO of Yara International, one of the world’s largest fertilizer producers, told the Financial Times on Sunday that global fertilizer markets have been “extremely volatile over ...

Over twenty years ago, Jewish Russian-Israeli Natan Sharansky coined the “3D Test of Anti-Semitism: Demonization, Double Standards, Delegitimization.” Each one comes for Jews in their own unique way: ...

Spokesperson of al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas movement, Abu Obeida speaks during an anti-Israel military parade of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, to ...