The resentment of the Torah scholar is no modern invention—it is as ancient as the Torah itself, etched into the very moment of our birth as a nation. On the day God gave us the Torah at Sinai ...

The pilgrimage festival of Shavuot at the conclusion of the Omer period was in thanksgiving for God’s blessing and protection of the land and its produce.

For many years, I’ve wrestled with this—not because I fail to feel the weight of the Exodus, but because I’ve never felt myself at Sinai ... liberation. The Torah says: שֵׁשׁ מֵאוֹ ...

One of the most well-known and beloved Jewish holidays, Passover (in Hebrew, Pesach), is coming up soon on the 15th day of ...

Last month, we celebrated Purim, whose essence is encapsulated in the verse from the Book of Esther: “The enemies of the Jews ...

Abraham in turn Isaac, in turn Jacob, in turn Joseph and the twelve tribes, this brings us directly to the people of Israel and the covenant at Sinai. So Abraham is thought of as the first Jew ...

In Israel, most ancient sites have left abundant evidence ... that Saudi Arabia is the place in which Mount Sinai towers is that Jewish refugees from Goshen had been led to a mountain-locked ...