The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

Joy is a very holy pursuit. And no day exemplifies this more than Purim.

According to Jewish custom the best possible time to recite ... This theme of the break of day is clearly seen in the Psalm which the Vilna Gaon has taught should be the Psalm of the day for ...

A drama festival is set to showcase a range of thought-provoking plays. The Enniskillen Drama Festival continues, with performances from March 12 to March 18 from several theatre companies, each ...

He has published two Hebrew volumes on the Vilna Gaon’ s understanding of the laws of mikveh. Rabbi Goldberg has written an extensive amount of book reviews, published in the Intermountain Jewish News ...

Hirsch Lekert was an anti-Zionist Bundist who had attempted to assassinate the governor of Vilna, General Victor von Wahlin ... Trumpeldor, a rare Jewish officer in the Czarist army, who founded the ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

(Bava Kamma 60a) Or perhaps Esther responds to the ongoing danger to the Jewish people. Certainly, this is how classical commentators understand her request. Rashi, for example, suggests that ...

This is the profound and remarkable story of the 550,000 Jewish Americans who served their country in World War II. These brave men and women fought for their nation and for Jewish people worldwide.