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The hand matzah you’ll eat the nights of the seder could have come from any one of a number of bakeries, but if it came from the Charedim Matzah Bakery in...

PHOTO ESSAY: The Jewish Day School Experience “The Jewish Day School Experience” is a recently published photo essay, featuring more than 85 color photographs by photographer and filmmaker Judah S. Harris....

Sarah’s biblical epitaph enumerates the years of her life in an unusual fashion, with the word “years” repeated three times: “one hundred years and twenty years and seven years” (Genesis 23:1)....

“And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem… and the Lord appeared to Abraham and said: To your seed will I give this land; and he built there...

Is prayer answered? If God is changeless, how can we change Him by what we say? Even discounting this, why do we need to articulate our requests? Surely God, who sees...

   

When you kindle the lamps… There are so many of them, hanging on the walls and swinging from the ceilings. They line the corridors of this musty place and stand uptight...

Of Biblical Proportions is a fresh, new comic strip that depicts the weekly Torah portion with modern, humorous twists. The cartoon was conceived and created by NY-based freelance cartoonist Chari Pere....

To serve and to carry… It was a wasteland. I remember. Nothing could ever grow there. Not plants and not relationships. I would walk there, thinking what a perfect world –...