As the Sefaria organization has learned in the application process, designing a tiny graphic Torah comes with many questions and hurdles JERUSALEM (JTA) — Designing a new emoji is not simple. Sefaria, ...

The parsha of Bamidbar is generally read on the Shabbat before Shavuot, z’man matan torateinu, “the time of the giving of our law,” the revelation at Sinai. So the Sages, believing that nothing is ...

On the face of it, the No. 1 idea outlined by the leaders of the Jewish Federations of North America in response to the challenges laid bare by the recent Pew survey of American Jews sounds like a ...

(RNS) More than 10 years ago, Harold Grinspoon learned that Dolly Parton, who grew up in a poor home with no books, gives away thousands of books each month as part of her “Imagination Library” ...

We saw that many commentaries link Rebbi Yehoshua’s words to Rebbi Nechunya’s earlier assertion that Torah scholars are exempted from taxes and other communal responsibilities (Avot 3:5. See also ...

Shavuot carries a dual symbolism: on the one hand, it is the day of the giving of the Torah—the sublime moment in which a nation of slaves becomes a chosen people; on the other hand, it is a festival ...

Polonius, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is presented as a shallowly sincere, but insufferably garrulous “tedious old fool.” The character of Polonius is the one who says the words, This above all: to thine ...