Touro College Graduate School of Social Work students pursuing careers in mental health networked and learned from top Orthodox professionals in the field at the 22nd annual conference of NEFESH … more

When Yaniv and Marcia Gliksman and their children moved a few years ago to St. Lucia — an idyllic island nation nestled among the Windward Islands at the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea … more

Perla Akerman, a Nursey 2 student at the Brandeis School early childhood center in Lawrence, practices lighting candles for Shabbat with her teacher, Erica Fuchs. more

Our parasha, Mishpatim, contains the ethically-infused mitzvah “mi’devar sheker tirchak” (“Distance yourself from a false matter,” Shemot 23:7). In his Torah … more

The Kotzker Rebbe offered an imaginative scene relating to the Revelation at Mt. Sinai.  While all the Israelites gathered to receive G-d’s words, a group of elitists started to leave in … more

Was it coincidence or fate that the New York Philharmonic commissioned Julia Wolfe to compose a new piece about the deadly fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory? … more

A legacy is something to be appreciated by all who benefit from a person’s teachings and personal example. One such person is Rabbi Berel Wein, whose life’s work as a rabbi has … more

Note the contrast: When Matteo Salvini, Italy’s interior minister, recently visited Jerusalem, which he hailed as the capital of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called him a … more

The alliance between African-Americans and Jews during the struggle for civil rights has often been invoked when tensions between the two have arisen in the years since the 1960s. Yet the memory … more

Probably the purest image in the world is that kidney-bean shaped baby in utero, cozily nestled in its mother’s womb. When I heard of the new abortion law passed in New York this week, in my … more