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Everything you need to know about Judaism and being Jewish: the weekly Torah portion, Jewish holidays, Jewish rituals and more.

 THE END of Moses’s role was not a failure but the conquest of another peak. Pictured: Mount Everest.

Parashat Pinhas: How Moses ended his role as leader of the Jewish people

Shuva Israel also in Georgia: A new study center in Batumi

By David Berger
The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus, A.D. 70

Fast of the 17th of Tammuz: Times and customs

‘The Battle of Anghiari.’

Divine ethics: Torah's code of conduct in warfare

By Mark Fish

Sunny Isles Beach: a new Yeshiva opens in Rabbi Pinto’s Shuva Israel network

By David Berger
 Author Gila Fine.

‘The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic': Gila Fine’s fine book on women in the Talmud

By PAM PELED
 A man stands under the starry sky (Illustrative)

'Making sense of God' through Norman Solomon's new book

By RABBI REUVEN CHAIM KLEIN
 Elke Bentley, 18, completed reading the Babylonian Talmud in just two-and-a-half years.

Meet the teenaged girl who read the Talmud in two-and-a-half years

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA
 Jewish cemetery in Karczew, Otwock County, Poland.

Workers uncover remains of a synagogue destroyed by Nazis in Poland

 Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff

'Ethics at the Center': Jewish ethics and its relevance for our time

By RON KRONISH
 Hamechina Hayerushalmit students and their Kesher Yehudi partners share experiences at an end-of-year event.

Kesher Yehudi: Promoting Jewish unity through study

By SHARON ALTSHUL
 A petri dish is seen following an embryo transfer surgery at the Beijing Perfect Family Hospital, in Beijing, China April 6, 2023

The problems with preimplantation genetic diagnosis in Jewish law

By SHLOMO M. BRODY
 DID THE people of Israel have any real reason to fear Balaam’s curse?

Parashat Balak: Can God be bribed?

 Ari Kingsman, left, and Joshua Phillips both converted to Judaism while incarcerated.

Rabbi helps two incarcerated men convert to Judaism

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA
New immigrants from Ukraine make aliya, December 30, 2014

Anti-Semitism in France: 38% of French Jewry Express desire to make Aliyah

By Mark Fish

Talking is harmful: Learn to keep quiet in your marriage

By David Berger
An Orthodox Jewish worshipper prays at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City

Watch: How you can find out who you really are

By David Berger
 ‘RED HEIFER’ by Antonio Tempesta, Italian printmaker, 16th century.

The perplexing nature of the red heifer: Turning to faith when logic is absent

 The red heifers brought to Israel from Texas.

The red heifer: A statute with a cause

By NECHAMA GOLDMAN BARASH
Shabbat candles

Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel, UK, and the US

 HOW CAN a person approach holiness after coming close to death?

Parashat Chukat: Protest against death

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