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That, according to Psalms, was the lament of the Jews exiled from their homes in Israel to the land of Babylon, where a harsh new reality made the old prayers and songs seem irrelevant. It has become ...
Look up in the sky tonight. You won’t see much of a moon. The beginning of a new month is coming up. Astronomically, Rosh Chodesh, the “new moon” in the Jewish calendar, occurs when we see no moon in ...
CHESTNUT RIDGE − The village law permitting residential houses of worship has survived a federal court challenge. U.S. District Court Judge Nelson Roman on Friday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the ...
On the first Yartzeit of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski obm, Rabbi Meir Kessler writes of the time Rabbi Twerski choked up at one of the Jewish Recovery Shabbatons, and what happened after that... Full ...
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...
Watch: With Jews around the world set to daven at home this Shabbos, Chazan Yudi Cohen of the Sydenham Shul of Johannesburg was joined by a men's choir to bring a musical Birchas Hachodesh to you.
God punished Miriam for speaking slander by afflicting her with tzaraat, an unsightly skin ailment. Tzaraat also can affect a house, and according to the Rambam, that, too, is caused by evil speech: ...
CHESTNUT RIDGE – Even as local officials consider a hotly contested zoning law that would permit houses of worship in houses in residential neighborhoods, a coalition of ultra-Orthodox Jews filed a ...
This year 5776, as in all leap years and only in leap years, Parashot Tazria and Metzora are read separately. And this year, as in about two-thirds of all leap years, Parashat Tazria coincides with ...
If you know some basic information and are paying attention, you will read this week’s haftarah and be confused. it will last for 180 days. What the Malbim doesn’t say, but we can suggest, is that ...
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