We know Yosef never forgot his father. Even though he no longer lived next to him, his father was an ever-present influence wherever he went and whatever he did.
It appears that killing a rodef is not only a complicated halacha, but only bidieved (a secondary choice). We are therefore left with a fundamental question: Why are we allowed to, or supposed to, kil ...
The siddur had a number of versions from the outset – one of which was meant for schoolchildren – and at least one of which appears to have had an attached translation into Ladino, all sold in New ...
Joseph is the center of attention whenever he is, as it were, onstage, and yet he is, time and again, the done-to rather than the doer, an object of other people’s actions rather than the subject of ...
The Israeli embassy in Dublin, soon to be the Palestinian Museum. Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar announced on December 15 that he would shut down his country’s embassy in Dublin, a move driven ...
The reward for fulfilling the mitzvah of Ner Chanukah properly is great indeed. It is something we strive for every day. It is, comprehensively speaking, the goal of all our toil.
The Targum Yonasan Ben Uziel explains that the dream of the Royal Butler actually alluded to the redemption of the Jewish people. This being so, Yosef understood that the redemption could only come ab ...
Cross-border pollution emanating from the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria is causing more than NIS 3 billion in damage annually to the region, according to a new report published by the ...
Netanyahu made the pledge while lighting the shamash and the first candle together with employees from the Prime Minister’s Office, senior officials and their children. “The Houthis will also learn ...