If one had already been tied to the stake to receive lashes and he ran away from the court and escaped, he is exempt from ...

Shabbat is the most important day of the week. On one hand it is bound to time, but on the other hand, we step off of time.

Language does not pull triggers. But it can lower the threshold. It can frame violence as resistance, strip moral complexity ...

Shortly after this incident, only two angels appear at Sodom to warn of the impending doom. Why only two angels, and not ...

Each week, Ari Sliffman, a Jewish legal mediator in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania discusses the week’s Parshah “through the lens ...

The western retaining wall is our Western Wall of today. Herodian stone can be easily recognized by the frame, the raised ...

“Kvetching Intensifies”: Antisemitic Discourse Online after the Washington Embassy Shooting ...

The path back from callousness begins with simple recognition: behind every statistic lies a human face, behind every ...

If you go in the way of my statues… I will grant you peace in the land” (Vayikra 26:3-6). Parshas Bechukosai opens with this ...

The alternative is Yavne. Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakkai didn’t call for revenge when the Second Temple fell. He asked for Yavne — ...

Rabbi Sacks OBM used to say, the only people that can defeat the Jewish people are the Jewish people.

Yom Yerushalayim is the day we celebrate the city’s reunification in 1967. And it’s a particularly special day for Jerusalem ...