Its destruction revealed a mural — covered by renovations and completely forgotten— that seems to illustrate Jews wandering the desert with their Torah. Photo by Patrick Wright It’s true ...
Many people I encounter here in Victoria have no familiarity at all with basic Jewish vocabulary, so I thought I would use ...
Modern Jews also need to change the world because the outside is getting nasty. A worldwide study of Antisemitism was released by the ADL on January 14. The results were frightening: “The survey shows ...
Today he’s working on his most ambitious project yet: capturing the key moments of the Torah in 40 large murals. “Forty is a sacred number in Judaism,” Avayu told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The ritualized, singsong reading from Torah scrolls called cantillation, learned by Jewish boys (and girls) when they come of age, is a part of services on Shabbat and holidays, with truncated ...
Whatever the precise history of their origins, a pivotal point for the Jews of Ethiopia was in 1976 when the Chief Sephardic ...
These are also the ways to strengthen fundamental belief in Hashem. The first way Torah study strengthens belief in Hashem is by revealing aspects that human beings could not have written.
The book of Exodus shows us that PTG — our ability to grow from trauma — has been part of our coping mechanism for thousands ...
Photo by Heidi Paster This sparked the creation of Torah Tropical, a documentary that follows a family of Colombian converts to Orthodox Judaism – also known as judíos emergentes (“emerging ...
We begin with Moses’ pivotal moment. He sees that a slave master is beating a Hebrew. The Torah tells us that Moses “turned ...