In stark contrast to the fires burning across Israel at this moment, today is Thanksgiving Day in the US, and many of us here in US, and abroad are gathering with family and our dearest friends to ...

Psalm 126 — ShirHaMa’alot — paints a stirring vision of Israel’s redemption, a time of homecoming and hope as the Jewish people return to their land: שִׁיר הַמַּעֲלוֹת: בְּשׁוּב ה’ אֶת-שִׁיבַת צִיּוֹן ...

It is customary to recite Psalm 126 before saying the Grace After Meals on Shabbat and holidays. The Zohar provides a reason for this custom: "One who enjoys his table and delights in his food should ...

The post Jon and Rachel Goldberg Polin, parents of slain hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, wish ‘love and strength to us all’ ...

It’s hard to imagine there’s actual good news in a country that’s suffered a 20-year civil war; with 5.4 million dead from fighting, disease and malnutrition; and 50 percent of children under five ...

I spent my entire childhood in Vienna, Virginia. From infancy to my eighth year we lived on Hillside Circle. In the back yard, a swing took me up above a honeysuckle bush with every push from my ...

When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath ...

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