1+ hour, 34+ min ago  (1368+ words) It should have been the most joyous day since G-d had given us the Torah some ten months earlier. After months of preparing to build the Mishkan and its many accoutrements, after the euphoria of collecting the gold, silver, copper,…...

1+ hour, 15+ min ago  (546+ words) The moment Pesach ends, the Jewish home undergoes a rapid change. we move from the "bread of poverty" found in the Haggadah-the bread of miracles-back to the world of chametz. This transition is more than just a change in diet;…...

56+ min ago  (679+ words) These days, growing congregations is very much on Isaacs" mind, as she"s leading a movement to strengthen rural synagogues and Jewish communities around the country. They"ve reached dozens, and they"re hoping for many more. "Rural Jewish life…...

41+ min ago  (414+ words) And Aaron was silent" Leviticus 10: 3 This week we will mark Yom Hashoah, the day on which Israeli public life, and Jewish communities worldwide, turn to remember the six million murdered in the Holocaust. Jewish philosophers in the latter 20th century invested…...

1+ hour, 16+ min ago  (285+ words) If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all these thing. (Judges 13: 23) This is a sort of " If the…...

3+ hour, 3+ min ago  (204+ words) Now, a crackpot gang of internet celebrities presenting as Christians " and presumably riding the wave of surging anti-Jewish conspiratorialism " appear to be positioning themselves as the heirs to these villains, whether consciously or not. The effort to infuse this settled…...

2+ hour, 20+ min ago  (635+ words) Parashat Shmini is read at the beginning of the days of the Counting of the Omer " the period between Passover and Shavuot. It symbolizes a process of purification, similar to the journey our ancestors underwent from the Exodus from Egypt…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (465+ words) By Barrett Holman Leak in San Diego But in the very next breath, the fire of favor became a fire of consumption. Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, step forward with their own fire pans, offering "strange fire" (esh…...

8+ hour, 59+ min ago  (38+ words) Jewish Herald-Voice Seder under sirens: Israelis mark Passover in the shadow of war Jews in Jerusalem burn leavened items in a final preparation before Passover, April 1....

35+ min ago  (82+ words) Founded in 1841, the Jewish Chronicle is the world's oldest and most influential Jewish newspaper. Friday, April 10 (Nisan 23) Saturday, April 11 (Nisan 24), Torah portion: Shemini, Leviticus 9: 1 to 11: 47 Haftarah: (Sephardim) 2 Samuel 6: 1-19; (Ashkenazim) 2 Samuel 6: 1 to 7: 17 Shabbat ends in London at 8. 40; Bournemouth 8. 48; Leeds 8. 51; Manchester 8. 55; Gateshead…...