Across the world, criticism of Israel is increasing, and many Jews are finding it harder to stand openly with the Jewish State. People speak about the importance of supporting Israel, but the truth ...

Rav Chaim Volozhin answers that the ability that we have seen so many of our people possess to give everything including their lives for a Kiddush Hashem was inherited from our Avos and Imahos. Rav ...

IDF Staff Sergeant Gal Kobi (20), from Tirat Carmel, was killed on Sunday after being shot by an Arab sniper in Hebron. Toward the end of this week’s parshah Rashi quotes a Medrash that relates the ...

Exactly twenty years ago this Shabbos, my sister and I stood before the bimah of our conservative shul for our B’nai Mitzvah. Before the congregation, we gave our own interpretation of this week’s ...

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This week, thousands of Jews will spend Shabbat at the burial place of Sarah Imenu and Avraham Avinu as we read the parsha that narrates their deaths and foreshadows the legacy they leave. This custom ...

The following text was never read aloud. Ditsa Or prepared it carefully and worked on it for a long time, but in the end—overcome by emotion, speeches, and embraces—she did not deliver these words.

Avraham isn’t simply a model of righteousness himself; he instills a way of balanced character and moral discipline that we can apply to investing as well. The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s ...