Beauty Mask by Rabbi Josh Knobel I’ll always remember the first time we taught our daughter to don her mask. I waited anxiously [...]

The Shabbat prior to Purim is always celebrated as Shabbat Zachor, a testament to the unprovoked attack by Amalek upon the Israelites, as recounted [...]

“No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.” On this day in 1859, the [...]

On this day in 1856, Heinrich Heine, the famous Jewish poet and satirist who converted to Lutheranism, passed away. Before his conversion in [...]

On February 16, 1963, The New Yorker printed the first of Hannah Arendt’s extensive reports on the Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, which began two [...]

On this day in 1781, the world bid farewell to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, a Christian German author, playwright, critic, and philosopher, as well [...]

This week's Torah portion is Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:23) which contains the Ten Commandments. Each day, a member of the Wise clergy will share [...]

“…You shall love the stranger as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” — Leviticus 19:34. On this day in [...]

On this day in 1971, Empress Catherine of Russia issued the second of three ukases (decrees) restricting the right of Jewish commerce in [...]

As the secular New Year approaches, the vast majority of our New Years’ resolutions will likely attempt to distance us as far from [...]