Surrounded by caring staff, doting close friends, and beaming loved ones, it was a festive party that few assisted living facilities have the honor and opportunity to experience.

It’s the rebuke that stings: Tachat asher lo avadta et Hashem Elokecha b’simcha u’vtuv levav “Because you did not serve Hashem your G-d with joy and gladness of heart…” ( Devarim 28:47). Not for ...

The navi Yishayahu compares the return of Am Yisrael to Eretz Yisrael as doves who return to their home. The navi continues and describes how the gates of Israel will be open day and night for Jews to ...

If we have wronged someone, it is essential to seek their forgiveness before turning to Hashem.

Only a week and a half later, on October 7, Ravid fought heroically with the kibbutz emergency squad – and fell in battle. His body was taken to Gaza and later returned in a military operation. Ravid ...

Gratitude does not just lead to joy. Gratitude produces joy. By tracing our blessings back through time, we cultivate the emotional soil in which joy grows.

The gift of Bikkurim has to be wrapped in a way that is fit for a King. It must be offered in a beautiful basket.

Just the sight of her face brought a wrenching stab of pain, a reminder of his loss. How was he supposed to act around her now? There hadn’t been time to think about it, so all he’d managed to do ...

Charlie was extremely smart, knowledgeable, well read and an authoritative yet genuine voice who could speak on virtually every subject, capable of responding to those debating and critiquing him.

Art historians and commentators, who are fascinated by the question of why Picasso singled out a specifically Jewish figure for The Old Jew, have presented many theories on the subject.

The true national essence of Israel is not found in our markets, whether domestic or for export. In fact, Hashem made us with all the capabilities we require to subsist and even to thrive in our Land, ...

As we recite this haftara, let us hope and pray to be deserving of a redemption that comes in a flash. The Jewish people of today, in Israel and outside it, has progressed spiritually beyond recogniti ...