Berel Lang of Wesleyan University writes to ask if I would “consider tracing the genealogy of the Hebrew Sabbath greeting ‘Shabbat Shalom’ — specifically, when it entered popular discourse.” And he ...

I’m standing here at the entrance to Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel, right on the border with Gaza. A place where so many terrorist atrocities took place on the 7th of October. And from here I’d ...

20:42, Fri, Sep 7, 2018 Updated: 20:52, Fri, Sep 7, 2018 Rosh Hashanah translates as the “beginning of the year”. The holiday will begin on Sunday, September 9 and end on the evening of Tuesday, ...

As opposed to a regular Friday-night Shabbat at Chabad when anywhere from 150-200 students show up, Mega Shabbat is intended to introduce a wider audience to the Jews’ day of rest and to Jewish ...