For the previous Hanukkah essays, click here. For a film about Rabbi Shapira zts"l, click here. The Greeks’ main battle was in the spiritual realm: “To cause the Jewish people to forget Hashem’s Torah ...

To read the first article in this series, Hanukkah - The celebration of the Oral Law, click here. Note: Footnotes have been omitted due to programming restraints. In the time of the second Beit ...

Did you know that the ancient scrolls of the Torah don’t contain any vowels? Unlike English, where vowels are explicitly represented as letters (A, E, I, O, U) and are fundamental to every word, ...

Hebrew vowels make their appearance through ‘nikkud’—a system of 16 different symbols representing 5 basic vowel sounds. These symbols are strategically placed around the letters to guide ...

For a while now I’ve been hearing about a new translation of the Hebrew Bible, called Tanach Ram. (Tanakh, of course, is Hebrew for “Bible,” an acronym composed of Torah, the Five Books of Moses; Nevi ...

You need math, English for Torah: Rebuttal to Chief Rabbi Yosef - opinion Everyone should learn Torah, plenty of it, but it’s rather hard to learn Torah without the aid of the skills imparted by what ...

Summer photos are most revealing. Our family’s photos almost always reveal my absence for the simple reason that I am usually the designated family photographer. During one vacation in the Northwest, ...