We daven together in synagogues that feel familiar whether we’re in Toronto or Tel Aviv. We mourn together when tragedy strikes and we celebrate together when a lost hostage comes home or an aliyah ...

The title page itself announces the work’s ambitions: a composition… measured and delved to uncover allegory and parable in the words of Chazal, standing on the shoulders of giants like the Ibn Ez ...

Going out before the people and going in before them is one type of leadership. It is the leadership of the humble public servant who bends before the needs of his people.

On a desert cliff named Sinai – its exact location now lost – Hashem gave us the Torah. Years later, upon the twin peaks of Gerizim and Eival in northern Israel, we reenacted Sinai. This mountain ...

If rabbis begin to offer public endorsements, especially from the pulpit, will those who disagree with his conclusion still feel comfortable being part of that shul?

You don’t need a girl who see you and sees short. You need a girl who sees you and understands that you are everything she ever hoped for.

When confronted by Leah’s harsh words, Rachel certainly could have argued back, showing how she, not Leah, was the victim in this situation. She now had to share her husband, when she could have had ...

The message is about tolerance, anti-hate, anti-bias, anti-discrimination. It’s not just that we need to be more tolerant, because students understand that but we really get to focus on how I can be ...

Not every gut impulse is a moral directive. When we confuse conscience with certainty, we risk mistaking personal anger for sacred missions.

Fayge Young works as a copyeditor, copywriter, librarian, and writer. She is a wife, mother, and grandmother with a passion for Torah education and the Jewish people. Baking cookies fits in somewhere.

Striking the right balance between Torah and one’s livelihood is a tricky business. Especially since making a living is a mitzvah in itself.

Rabbbeinu Bachye finds it problematic to accept the literal interpretation that Hashem somehow erred, requiring our intercession on His behalf. He explains that the real purpose of this mitzvah of the ...