“Every ailment I had had cure in Torah. I had tried everybody else’s path and now it was time to try mine.”

As we start reading the Torah anew, we remember that Rav Kook once wrote that God left the world unfinished so that we could partner with Him to complete creation. Many Orthodox Jews wear black and white, but really there is so much color and creativity behind the scenes. You won’t believe what these Orthodox […]

Just as you have to pass by the thorn to get to the beauty of the rose, so follows the process of teshuva during the month of Elul.

Update 1/28/26: AJ Edelman, an American-Israeli athlete who represented Israel in men’s skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics, will lead Israel’s first-ever qualified bobsleigh team at the 2026 Milan–Cortina Games. The historic team includes Menachem Chen, Ward Fawarseh, and Omer Katz, with Uri Zisman heading to Italy as an alternate — marking a major milestone […]

When Jamie Foxx posted on Instagram about a friend’s betrayal, many thought he was speaking about Jews when he wrote, “They killed Jesus.” The Jews killing Jesus is a false narrative that’s been spread for millennia, so it’s understandable that those words may strike a chord in the Jewish community. In reality, Foxx was using […]

Nechuma Schweitzer had an upbringing that didn’t quite serve her. She grew up in a Hasidic community and something about it didn’t feel right. She didn’t connect to what she was learning and didn’t feel comfortable asking questions to get answers that might change that. She didn’t even want to get married or have children […]