(July 30, 2026 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a series of high-level meetings in Washington on Wednesday, sitting down with U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, four U.S.

...the volume explores personalities, movements, controversies, and ideas from across Jewish history through the lens of the weekly parsha. The result is a work that is both ambitious, but also ...

Sarai’s entrance into Egypt is marked by silence. She is taken into Pharaoh’s house, and the Torah does not record a single word from her on the matter. That silence is not incidental. It is the Torah ...

Adolf Eichmann was executed on June 1, 1962, after one of the most thorough and procedurally rigorous criminal trials in modern history. Following his capture in Argentina and transfer to Israel, he ...

The first mention of Mount Sinai in the Torah does not occur amidst thunder, lightning, and the giving of the Ten Commandments. It appears much earlier, when Moshe, tending the sheep of his ...

BROOKLYN, NY — The Rabbinical Alliance of America (RAA / Igud HaRabbonim), representing over 950 Orthodox rabbis across North America, celebrated its 84th anniversary (1942–2026) on Monday, August 31, ...

Sold out. Standing room only! World-renowned scholar Rabbi Tovia Singer came to Chabad of Troy, and the room was electric from the first minute to the last. His clarity, his passion, and his command ...

The Mateh Ephraim (581:10), in his discussion of the customs of Elul, writes that anshei ma’aseh – people particularly careful in their observance – use this month to examine the details of their ...

On Rosh Hashanah, there are many minhagim that developed as ways to mark the beginning of the Jewish New Year. One of the most famous is dipping apple in honey. This minhag dates back to the medieval ...

New York lawmakers rolled a proposal for a 50-foot “buffer zone” around Jewish day schools and community centers into the state budget on Tuesday. Sam Sutton, a Democratic state senator who is Jewish, ...

This past Shabbat afternoon, in the midst of a typical steaming-hot summer here in Jerusalem (it’s August as I write this), we experienced something epic: heavy, drenching rain. Forecasters had ...

Usually, when I attend an event, I seek out a Jewish angle for the story. Recently, in the Albany suburb of Colonie, it was an easy task because the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. (JWV) held their ...