The Torah portion Vayera tells of Avraham Avinu, blessed by God with both immense material wealth and spiritual greatness. He ...

Jewish writer Shulem Deen said he was born into a world of complete passivity, with major life decisions made for him, including whom to marry and what names to give his children. That was true until ...

By Rabbi Mikhail Salita, a Brooklyn rabbi with roots in Odesa, Ukraine . Sometimes destinies intertwine in ways that even ...

Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. Long before cantors were household names ...

When Abe Kugielsky first began photographing the Hasidic Jewish community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, in 2010, he was an outsider with a camera, met with resistance from a community unaccustomed to ...

My devotional reading currently includes the late Elie Wiesel’s book “Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of the Hasidic Masters.” (Vintage Books, 1972) This paperback has been sitting on my shelf ...

Aspen may be heralded as an escape and enclave for musicians, but it’s guaranteed that artist Matisyahu’s experience this weekend will be more Aspen Music Festival and School and less Widespread Panic ...

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo secured the backing from leaders of a typically bloc-voting Orthodox Jewish group on Sunday — after ...