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Battle-Hardened Kharkov Welcomes Rabbi Home to Ukraine

In exile, Rabbi Moshe Moskovitz has been helping the community he worked to build for 30 years By: Faygie Levy Holt After three months in exile,...

Examining, Checking & Correcting the Blackness of Tefillin

Examining, Checking & Correcting the Blackness of Tefillin Making Certain that the Kesharim (knots),Tefiros (stitching), Squareness of ones Tefillin - Are in Good Order Edited...

Parshas Nasso: BLESSING WITH LOVE

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin HaShem spoke to Moshe: “Speak to Aaron and his sons. This is how you shall bless the people of Israel. Say...

‘Chalk Over Hate’: Fighting hate speech, anti-Semitism with positive public art

(JNS) Nearly 2,000 people gathered throughout the United States on June 3 to fight anti-Semitism and hate speech with a public art display. “Chalk Over Hate,”...

A Monumental Introduction to Humanity’s Place in G-d’s World

‘The Basics of Chassidus’ from Sichos in English is an invaluable explication of Chassidic thought and guide to a well-lived life By: Yaakov Ort My wife...

How My Traditional Wedding Sparked My Family’s Judaism … and My Own

By: Aleeza Zaner Like many other girls, I began dreaming about my wedding at a young age. I always knew what kind of dress I...

Why We Need to Remember the Farhud

  Why We Need to Remember the Farhud by Lyn Julius / JNS.org OPINION Rioters during the antisemitic pogrom in Baghdad, Iraq, known as the ‘Farhud,’ June 1,...

Aur Torah Sephardic Minyan Marks Shavuot Festival Preparation with A Torah Dedication

Aur Torah Sephardic Minyan Marks Shavuot Festival Preparation with A Torah Dedication  Edited by: TJVNews.com On Tuesday, May 31, 2022, in New Springville, Staten Island at...

Learning on Shavuot Night – Tikkun Leil Shavuot

An Insomniac’s Preparation for the Torah By: Eli Landes A Peculiar Custom Let’s take a walk for a moment. It’s Shavuot night; the festive meal has finished....

Shavuos – What Happened at Matan Torah?

The Sequence and Significance of the Events of the Giving of the Torah at Sinai By: Eli Landes In the Hebrew year 24481 (1313 BCE), on the...

Z’man Matan Torahseinu – Our Collective Journey

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin  “Good things come in small packages”. While Megillas Rus contains only four chapters, it speaks volumes. Shavuos is “Z’man Matan Torahseinu, --...

Rabbinical Alliance of America Tackles Education Hurdles, Encourages Civility & Calls for Sensible Revision of Bail Reform Laws

Rabbinical Alliance of America Tackles Education Hurdles, Encourages Civility & Calls for Sensible Revision of Bail Reform Laws   Edited by: TJVNews.com   On May 29, 2022, the...

Yom Yerushalayim: Reflections on June 1967

By:  Larry Domnitch On the eve of the 1967 Six-Day-War, Israel faced a mortal threat. The events of June 1967 came in the aftermath of the...

Naasei V’Nishma: Immersing Ourselves in the Mitzvos of Hashem

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin It’s Pirkei Avos season. On the long Shabbos afternoons of spring and summer, we open the Book of Ethics, ready to...

What Is Shavuot & How is it Celebrated?

By: Chabad.org The holiday of Shavuot is a two-day holiday, beginning at sundown following the 5th of Sivan and lasting until nightfall of the 7th...

A new study from Tel Aviv University sheds light on the phenomenon of female Jewish slavery and uncovers gang rape in Livorno’s slave prison

A new study from Tel Aviv University sheds light on the phenomenon of female Jewish slavery and uncovers gang rape in Livorno’s slave prison   Historian...

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