Eucalyptus project under construction in Beit Shemesh. When war breaks out in Israel, many people assume housing prices will collapse. In reality, that rarely happens – especially in Jerusalem. When ...

But Hashem’s hand is hidden in other contexts as well. I would like to present two. Ashrei is a very important prayer, and the most important pasuk in it is: “Poseiach es yadecha (You) open Your hand ...

Avi Goldstein writes frequently about religion and about politics. He loves learning Torah, and he plays guitar in a garage band. He and his wife, Dawn, live in Far Rockaway, NY.

Chaplain Daniel Coleman, BCC, MBA, provides non-judgmental religious and spiritual care to North Shore University Hospital’s community of patients, family members and staff. A frequent contributor to ...

Answer: Yours is an interesting question. I recently was in North Miami Beach, Florida, where there is an eruv. I saw two things of interest that one does not see up in the Northeast: first, adults ...

You know, the complainer, whiner, person who finds dissatisfaction with most things and likes to express it – in painful moans. I, however, want to introduce into the kvetch conversation a different ...

Roughly five hundred years before the Purim story, history entered a new phase. For the first time, large multi-regional empires emerged. In the late tenth and ninth centuries BCE, Assyria rose to ...