In the Torah portion Beshalach which we read this week, a profound verse highlights the relationship between divine guidance and personal well-being. The text presents two nuanced interpretations of ...

Vandals on Sunday night broke into a synagogue located in a public bomb shelter on Bat Yam's David Remez Street, throwing a Torah scroll on the floor and stepping on it. The vandals used electric ...

Sharon Brous of IKAR in Los Angeles and Sharon Kleinbaum of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah in New York City spoke during a virtual service. Here’s a rundown of the rabbis who have participated ...

This is a classic account of the genesis of a hero. But this is only the surface tale. The Torah is a deep and subtle book, and it does not always deliver its message on the surface. Just beneath ...

Zehut Party Chairman former MK Moshe Feiglin announced during a conference in Petah Tikva on Thursday that his party will compete in the next election. In his announcement, Feiglin voiced strong ...

The teacher in question is Jemal Murph, who is also the Lincoln Middle School Athletic Director. Murph is accused of punching a student last October on a playground near an after-school soccer game.

After ensuring that the students were sent home safely, the next priority was the protection of the center’s two Torah scrolls, one of which had been brought over from Europe by a family after ...

An attorney for Jemal Murph argued that the Lincoln Middle School athletic director acted in self-defense when he hit a student. The Portland school board delayed a vote on whether to fire a ...

Jemal’s Douglas Development Corp. has filed an application with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to enroll the 0.9-acre property into the voluntary Brownfield Cleanup ...

Isska in a photo for Paster’s Washington Post article. Photo by Heidi Paster This sparked the creation of Torah Tropical, a documentary that follows a family of Colombian converts to Orthodox ...

On the corner of Bidwell and Elmwood there is an ongoing development project by Douglas Jemal that has caused considerable uproar for some Elmwood Village residences. I take issue with these few ...