A drawing from Bernard Germain de Lacépède’s “Histoire Naturelle des Poissons” (Natural History of Fish, 1798) Peru u’revu, the commandment to have children, is the Torah’s first mitzvah and, in fact, ...

One reason given by the Elya Rabbah (Simon 492, seif 3) for these fast days is to atone for the possible sin of doing work on the recently passed Chol HaMoed of Sukkos or Pesach. One can immediately ...

Zohran Mamdani during a campaign event in the Queens borough of New York City, on June 19. New York stands on the edge of a moral and political precipice. If Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor, it will ...

Why did G-d destroy the world with a flood? We don’t have to look very hard because the Torah tells us explicitly: The earth was corrupt before G-d and the earth was filled with wrongdoing. Hashem saw ...

Bronze sculpture of an ibex from Iran, 1st millennium BCE. Fishes are not named in either sedra – only the requirement of having fins and scales. Be aware that fish can have different types of scales ...

In the financial world, few things offer more comfort than receiving a large sum of cash. The challenge is how to handle a windfall responsibly based on the markets, economic environment, and personal ...

Portrait of Beser posing in front of the Enola Gay. On the Lufthansa Airlines cover displayed here, Jacob Herschel Beser has handwritten what constitutes a complete and definitive statement of his ...

As Israeli warplanes roared over Tehran in a wave of punishing strikes, another, quieter offensive was unfolding—one not launched from airbases, but from encrypted lines and whispered threats.

Last Thursday, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, former Chief Rabbi of Israel, launched a scathing attack on MK Yuli Edelstein, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, over Edelstein’s push ...

The first Shavuot was 3,337 years ago, when the entirety of the Jewish people stood at the foot of Mt. Sinai and received the Torah. When Shavuot arrived in 1948, it was a month after the ...

A small boy was used by the Hamas terrorist organization as bait against Israeli soldiers in Gaza. The soldiers rescued the child and returned him to his community. March 11, 2025 (JNS) The casualty ...