An untenable religious perspective Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seems to connect lapses in Torah learning to the deaths of five Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip. But how could anyone know such a thing? Rav Hayim Leiter July 10, 2025
Good or bad, now or later? Must we be lily white before we can clean up the world? Rabbi Yossy Goldman Jan. 8, 2025
‘We mourn through learning Torah’: Boston Jews unite in study to remember Oct. 7 victims Bonnie Pomper, whose nephew Hersh Goldberg-Polin was executed by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, told JNS that studying the Mishnah made her appreciate “mundane” prayers she has said by “rote.” Emily Goldberg Oct. 7, 2024
A book on faith, Judaism and defying Soviet rule Chabadniks literally risked torture, exile and death to hide other religious Jews on the run and to secretly teach Torah to Jewish youth. Phyllis Chesler March 26, 2024
Sephardic chief rabbi: ‘If they try to force haredim to enlist, we’ll go abroad’ "All these secularists do not understand that without the kollels and yeshivot the army would not have been successful," Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said. David Isaac March 10, 2024
Continuing the Torah-study journey There’s a new path for English-speaking students to pursue both academic and Torah study in Israel. Shlomo Anapolle Feb. 5, 2024
Going to ‘March for Israel’ part of curriculum, senior Yeshiva administrator says Some 2,500 students, faculty and staff attended the Nov. 14 rally in Washington, D.C. Elishama Marmon Nov. 21, 2023
The real joy of Simchat Torah Dancing with the young boy hoisted up high in Vilnius after the war was—perhaps for a community absent of a scroll—the manifestation of the holiday. Rabbi Morey Schwartz Oct. 6, 2023
Three-and-a-half-inch Gemara up for auction Royal Auction House is calling the edition the “world’s smallest ever printed.” Aug. 23, 2023
