Abulafia describes the initial encounter with prophetic awareness and how it impacts the recipient. The “use” that can be made of prophecy is highly contingent upon the preparation and training of the ...

Where will the market end in 2026? What sectors will be the best performers in the new year? If you had to invest $1 million in one area of the market for 2026, what would it be? Where will the market ...

There was once a public debate between a rabbi and an astrophysicist regarding the nature of our universe. The astrophysicist, representing the atheist perspective, confidently approached the podium ...

Most native English speakers (and many others) pronounce the name of this week’s sedra as TOL DOT (or TOL DOS). That’s wrong. The first letter, TAV (not TUFF, as many of us learned way back when), is ...

Bronze sculpture of an ibex from Iran, 1st millennium BCE. Fishes are not named in either sedra – only the requirement of having fins and scales. Be aware that fish can have different types of scales ...

In the financial world, few things offer more comfort than receiving a large sum of cash. The challenge is how to handle a windfall responsibly based on the markets, economic environment, and personal ...

Portrait of Beser posing in front of the Enola Gay. On the Lufthansa Airlines cover displayed here, Jacob Herschel Beser has handwritten what constitutes a complete and definitive statement of his ...

All 14 Jews the Iranian regime arrested have been released, Iranian opposition activists and journalists told JNS, after news reports last week that the Islamic Republic arrested some 600 people ...

One of the biggest line items in any frum family’s budget is yeshiva tuition. The cost of a yeshiva education has continued to rise, becoming a financial burden for many families. For years, Rabbinic ...

Booby-trapped tunnel shaft uncovered by IDF combat engineers. While mainstream media are focused on events in Iran, IDF soldiers are continuing Iron Sword operations in Gaza as they work to dismantle ...

Last Thursday, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, former Chief Rabbi of Israel, launched a scathing attack on MK Yuli Edelstein, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, over Edelstein’s push ...

Harvard University has shown appropriate sensitivity to the African American community by agreeing to relinquish seven photographs of half-naked Black slaves, which a professor commissioned in 1850 ...