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Bamidbar

Shabbat 250
Top 11 Reasons We Are Grateful for America

Ahead of Shabbat 250, we take a look at some of the reasons why this milestone holds particular resonance for the nation’s 7.5 million Jews.
By the Numbers
12 Facts About the Little-Known Jews of Cuba

In the decades leading up to the revolution, Cuba was home to a diverse and flourishing Jewish community with everything needed to live a full Jewish life.
10 Questions: Take the Temple Mount Quiz

What do you know about the holiest site in Judaism?
History
Mordechai Sheftall: Patriotic Officer, Prisoner of War, and Proud Jew

Mordechai Sheftall, 1735-1797, the highest-ranking Jew to serve in the American Revolution, was a devout Jew who stood strong in his beliefs and a fiercely patriotic American who suffered for his country.
Freeman Files
Is There a Flawless Proof That Torah Is True?

Many of the “facts of history” that are commonly accepted today are really quite questionable.
Your Questions
Amen vs Brich Hu in Kaddish: Why the Different Customs?

Tracing the origins of a subtle liturgical divide.
Voices
He Called Me 10 Minutes Before He Died

I lost my husband of less than two years in the Meron Lag BaOmer tragedy. I returned home 48 hours later – having left my other half and so many shattered pieces of myself in that spot.
The Boundary That Set Me Free

This week, for the first time in American history, a sitting president has invited everyone into that same conversation.
Parshah
How to Know When to Give Up

When you build a new house, you shall make a fence for your roof; lest you put blood in your house, when he who falls shall fall from it...
— Deuteronomy 22:8
Print Magazine

Why is Torah compared to light? Because it tells us the place of each thing.

Because, in truth, there is no need to change the world. Everything is here.

Each thing has a place, and in that place it is good. Altogether, it is very good, a beautiful world. All that’s needed is a little light.

What is light? Light...

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