On Wednesday evening, the Union Bedford Armory in Brooklyn was packed with thousands of men, women, and children, celebrating the Siyum HaRambam HaOlami, with thousands more viewing via live stream.

The deeper irony is that the Haredi world is arguably the most “AI-dependent” community in Judaism. They are adherents to the original AI: The Shulchan Aruch (The Code of Jewish Law).

In a preface to the 1932 Hebrew edition of the painter Leonid Pasternak’s study of Rembrandt, Russian-Jewish poet Hayim Nahman Bialik observed that although the Dutch artist was not Jewish, we “must ...

Knesset committee to receive final version of Draft Law, haredi party expresses concerns that harsher sanctions could interfere with yeshiva students' right to study Torah.

By the mid-20th century, with the rise of figures like Sayyid Qutb and the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamism was fully recast as a distinct ideology, a supposed perversion of Islam that sought to impose ...

However, Terumah dismantles that bargain. “Take for Me” is not “take for yourselves.” The giving is not supposed to build the donor’s status. It’s supposed to build a space where the Divine can dwell.

An abandoned synagogue in Pennsylvania’s coal region, which until the early 2000s had served Jewish residents of Mahanoy City for more than 80 years, collapsed late last week, officials and neighbors ...

At a ‘Jewish Left’ conference, attendees set out to build new institutions that they consider more ethically grounded in Judaism post-Oct. 7, 2023.

The Torah explains that the Israelites should make a sanctuary, a place where God dwells. But just a few verses earlier, the Torah teaches that the same sanctuary should be created with gifts from ...

This week’s Torah portion came to life for a rabbi in an entirely new way after a recent mission in Minneapolis to confront ICE.

Rav Yehoshua Heller suggests that the answer lies in the dramatic shift caused by the golden calf. The commands in parashat Terumah were given before that fall, when the nation still lived with the ...