At the age of ten, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn was arrested for the first time. He had stepped in to defend a Jewish butcher who was being beaten by a police sergeant in the marketplace of Lubavitch.

Where will the market end in 2026? What sectors will be the best performers in the new year? If you had to invest $1 million in one area of the market for 2026, what would it be? Where will the market ...

Mr. Mandel sat across from his chavrusa, the Gemara open before him, but his mind was wandering. “I’m really struggling with a decision,” he finally confided. “I’m between jobs right now, and rent is ...

“No one should be surprised by the ADL’s report that revealed over 20% of Zohran Mamdani’s transition team members hold extremist views and have ties with notoriously antisemitic organizations.

Acclaimed a cappella group Six13 just released a new Chanukah video – a good enough reason to meet and talk to them about their music. And about the trend over the last decade or so among Jewish a ...

There was once a public debate between a rabbi and an astrophysicist regarding the nature of our universe. The astrophysicist, representing the atheist perspective, confidently approached the podium ...

Most native English speakers (and many others) pronounce the name of this week’s sedra as TOL DOT (or TOL DOS). That’s wrong. The first letter, TAV (not TUFF, as many of us learned way back when), is ...

A drawing from Bernard Germain de Lacépède’s “Histoire Naturelle des Poissons” (Natural History of Fish, 1798) Peru u’revu, the commandment to have children, is the Torah’s first mitzvah and, in fact, ...

Bronze sculpture of an ibex from Iran, 1st millennium BCE. Fishes are not named in either sedra – only the requirement of having fins and scales. Be aware that fish can have different types of scales ...

In the financial world, few things offer more comfort than receiving a large sum of cash. The challenge is how to handle a windfall responsibly based on the markets, economic environment, and personal ...

There is a remarkable and almost mystical thread that ties Jews to one another, regardless of where we are in the world. We may come from different backgrounds, speak different languages, or live on ...

Portrait of Beser posing in front of the Enola Gay. On the Lufthansa Airlines cover displayed here, Jacob Herschel Beser has handwritten what constitutes a complete and definitive statement of his ...