If one loves the yeshiva life, one must also be willing to defend it. Without protection, Torah study cannot flourish. If Israel were overrun, yeshivas would be burned, Torah scrolls desecrated, and ...

Rabbi Dov Lando speaks to yeshiva students, stressing that 'Torah study is the most important thing in the world, and nothing takes precedence over Torah study.' ...

This past winter break, a new and exciting college winter learning retreat—Study on the Slopes—debuted with great success, ...

In Israel today, the Haredi question is no longer a marginal sociological issue. It sits at the center of our politics, our economy, and our social fabric: mass draft exemptions, low male workforce ...

Why do we need to tell our kids that they can’t do important things for their own sake, but only to get some kind of reward? The notion of manicures for middle school girls in a Jewish school disturbs ...

Unfortunately, the Jewish world in recent years has been shocked by news of rabbis and religious leaders engaging in financial or sexual impropriety. May one study the sefarim, or listen to the ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — One of these days, maybe ahead of Simchat Torah, you are going to attend a Jewish studies class. Or not. But let’s say you do. You’ll sit in a classroom, or a lounge, or in the front ...

A common critique of religion is that it exists only to blunt our fear of death through the deployment of comforting fairytales, replacing life’s great and unsettling unknowns with visions of an ...

Jewish mystical texts say God “looked into the Torah and created the world” and studying the Torah is a way of studying God’s mind. So why is it that Jewish study centers are filled almost exclusively ...

Storefront windows are being boarded up. The New York Times election needle of doom is back. On Election Day in 2020, the country is a ball of anxiety. Jews know a thing or two about political anxiety ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shas spiritual leader and former Sephardic chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, seen during a weekly lecture at the Yazdim synagogue in ...