No matter where one falls on the Jewish landscape, everyone — even children — bears a responsibility to teach others ...

I admire Hertz’s willingness to engage directly with modern issues relevant to biblical criticism and classical English Bible commentaries, drawing from both Jewish and non-Jewish literary sources to ...

This week’s Torah portion, Tetzaveh, is the only Torah portion, from the beginning of Exodus through the end of Deuteronomy, from which Moses is completely absent. Everywhere else in Exodus, Numbers, ...

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

This story was first published by FāVS News on Feb. 23, 2026. Jewish Boiseans gathered with the broader community this weekend to celebrate the formal installation of a new rabbi and the restoration ...

The whole point is that we want them to make a difference in this world as adults, so this is merely the first part of that lifelong journey' ...

This week’s Torah portion, T’rumah, represents another abrupt shift in focus within the book of Exodus from the mostly legal material of last week’s portion, Mishpatim, to the first of ...

This, too, was the reaction of the Haredi rabbis who declared a communal fast over AI last month.

Parashat Mishpatim shows how lofty spiritual experiences can become daily living. After the thunder and awe of Sinai in last week’s parasha, the Torah now turns to the details of life: laws of justice ...

In 1908, conservators in Leiden peeled back the binding of a 1557 Italian Hebrew book and unexpectedly exposed fragments of a forgotten Talmud edition from Faro. The colophon they uncovered not only ...

What is the true connection between the Tanach - the Written Torah - and the vast body of teachings that has been handed down ever since the Sinai Revelation, known as the Oral Torah? In this week's ...

Between 1489 and 1492, Lisbon briefly hosted one of Europe’s most sophisticated Hebrew presses, run by the elusive Rabbi Eliezer. This blog revisits the long‑standing scholarly identification of Rabbi ...