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Our Parsha opens with Avraham “coming to Kiriat Arba which is Hevron” in order to mourn Sarah and ultimately to bury her where she had lived, apparently on her own.

Last we heard, Avraham was living in Beer Sheva. This begs the rhetorical…

The Qur’an in 5:44 states: “Indeed, We (God) revealed the Torah, containing guidance and light, by which the prophets, who submitted themselves to Allah, made judgments for Jews. So too did the rabbis and scholars judge according to…

When rockets rained down from both north and south, more than 200,000 Israelis fled to the country’s center. In that flight, the soul of the nation was laid bare.

Doors swung wide. Strangers became hosts; hotels turned into temporary homes….

Vayera: The Wealth of Light

This week, as we read the Torah portion Vayera, something happened to me that I can only describe as hashgacha pratit — Divine Providence.

I came to the evening minyan at the synagogue on Avenue M and East 24th…

How is it possible that the entire world repeats a lie so confidently that it has become accepted as truth? How can people; journalists, academics, politicians,  say with a straight face that “Palestine has always been an Arab…