As Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky meets with European leaders, including Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Eduard Soler i Lecha, Associate Professor of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tulsa's Jewish population is usually estimated at just around 2,000 people in a metro area of one million. (Credit: Getty Images) ...

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From Yemenite Jews in Operation Magic Carpet to Soviet refuseniks, Ethiopian families, and Bnei Menashe from India, Isaiah’s vision has been realized in our own time. When God first spoke to Abraham, ...

The Torah presents Abraham not as a spiritual giant chosen by default but as Everyman. He is not depicted as a polished hero with prior accomplishments but as an ordinary person. In this week’s Torah ...

Abbreviations and acronyms are familiar features of rabbinic literature, but they are rare in the Torah itself. Even so, the Sages observed that a few examples of notarikon (Aramaic for ‘acronym’) are ...

Neriya Hy"d's brother שיבח"א with the Torah in his memoryCourtesy of the family Parashat Lech Lecha opens with G-d’s first call to Avram, when he was 75 years old, telling him to leave Haran, his ...

There is a whole lot of movement in Parshat Lech Lecha. We begin the parashah with God’s command to Avram to leave his homeland and go to a new place. Avram, Sarai and their nephew Lot leave Ur Kasdim ...

This week’s Torah portion is Lech-Lecha: Genesis 12:1 – 17:27 Lech-Lecha, the divine command to Abraham in Genesis 12:1, is often translated as “Go forth.” But the Hebrew is richer and much more ...