If the mitzvah of lighting candles is zecher l’Mikdash, then some form of mehadrin can be compared to other forms of hiddur mitzvah. But if the mitzvah is for pirsumei nisa, then mehadrin, especiall ...

Take Me Out to the Ball Game brought Von Tilzer great fame and, by the 1920s, he was no longer writing for vaudeville. He was now composing full scores for Broadway and then, after moving to Hollywood ...

The Middle East is changing. The spread of radical Sunni terror demands a strong, secure, and expanded Israel. A larger Israel would serve as a shield against the forces of chaos, a bastion of ...

Where grains abound, so does baking knowledge and Egypt was also the first baking superpower. Much of our modern baking science is derived from the ancient Egyptians.

The Israel Defense Forces have placed on display more than 85,000 weapons seized during operations that began at the start of October 2024 to dismantle infrastructure in southern Lebanon belonging to ...

Empires came and empires went, each with their antisemitic periods, originally induced by the church, like the massacre in York England in 1190 or the expulsion of Jews by K King Ferdinand and Queen ...

Hochul vetoed one of Weprin’s bills that he had high hopes of being signed into law. It was a bill capping co-payments on physical therapy, which is usually prescribed post-surgery and gen ...

Before Adam sinned, he looked nothing like you or I do today... The Midrash says that he wore kosnos ohr (skin of light). When you looked at Adam, you didn’t see his body but saw Adam himself, i.e., ...

An Arab driver who ran a red light at the Gush Etzion Junction on the first night of Hanukkah turned himself in to authorities Wednesday evening after hitting an Israeli man.

In terms of military action taking out Iran’s nuclear development sites, Israel has clearly demonstrated that the sites are well within reach of Israeli air power – and certainly that of the Unite ...

The IDF Rabbinate’s guidelines aim to answer many of the countless questions of Jewish law it has received in recent weeks regarding how to best fulfill the mitzvah of lighting Chanukah candles duri ...

There is a custom extant to gift money (gelt) to children on Chanukah for valid reasons, and perhaps that morphed into the present mania. But it’s still a legacy of our interactions with the ...