The prophecy of Jacob over Judah is a profound statement of expectation of the coming Messiah, in which every word – indeed ...

For over forty years I have been teaching the deeper significance of the amazing Redemption process of our times and the writings of Rabbi Kook in the English- Division of the Machon Meir Yeshiva in ...

On Simchat Torah, we were at a synagogue in Florida, and at the kiddish, the Rabbi was saying how the holiday is to celebrate the Torah—finishing one cycle of reading and learning it and immediately ...

What would you do if invited to participate in the unrolling of a 100-foot Torah scroll and an Israeli-style dinner at a synagogue? Don't know about you, but I eagerly accepted the invitation from ...

Many people I encounter here in Victoria have no familiarity at all with basic Jewish vocabulary, so I thought I would use this opportunity as a very basic primer. Rabbi: A rabbi primarily functions ...

Q: Why do Jews cover their heads (e.g., with a kipa) out of respect for God? Covering the head is a sign of respect.

When Greenwich resident Leon Gandelman grew up in Lvov in the Soviet Union in the 1940s and ’50s, he was not allowed to practice his religion in public. His parents gave him as traditional a Jewish ...