Building a mikvah, which literally translates as “pool,â€? “takes precedence even by building a house of worship,â€? Rabbi Shimon Hecht’s Congregation B’nai Jacob on Ninth Street and Chabad of Brownstone Brooklyn said in a statement… At... 

Last year, I wrote a scathing review of Augustus Richard Norton’s book, Hezbollah. Hilal Khashan from the American University of Beirut agrees with me. Writing in the latest Middle East Quarterly , Khashan notes that Norton’s book “fails... 

Jewelery mogul Lev Leviev won’t be cutting diamonds Sunday. He’ll perform a bris for Zina Sapir, daughter of real estate mogul Tamir Sapir, and her husband, Rotem Rosen, CEO of realty giant Africa Israel USA, who welcomed a baby boy last week.... 

Rabbi Nochem Kaplan, director of the Chabad-Lubavitch Education Office of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch visted Maimonides Jewish Day School in Portland last month to help the school start the process to accreditation… Maimonides Director Devora Wilhelm... 

Gifts of as much as $1,000 and as small as pocket change have flooded the Chabad of Parkland, and the money raised has allowed the synagogue to install floodlights on its grounds… In all, Chabad of Parkland has raised $10,000 thanks to donations... 

When Rabbi Meir Kessler set up an Orthodox synagogue in Delray Beach three years ago, a assured type of person consistently walked through the door: Jews seeking help with alcohol and drug abuse… Working with Chabad of Boca Raton, he began leading... 

After a signal from Drix last Thursday, Rabbi Ephraim Simon, director of Friends of Lubavitch of Bergen County, e-mailed his congregation that a Jewish man had died but did not have the mandatory quorum of 10 Jews to bury him. When the funeral began at... 

Question: I am trying to get pregnant.  Do you have any advice or resources for me? Answer: I’m sorry that it has taken me so lengthy to reply to your e-mail. I was very  moved by your question, and wanted to take the moment to think through... 

Question: Do you believe that God is more like a process rather than an actual being? Answer: According to the Talmud, G-d is primal, undifferentiated existence out of which all differentiated existence emerged. The existence that emerged from “Him”... 

Question: Where in the bible do you get indications that resurrection and reincarnation are possible? Answer: Thank you for your excellent question. Resurrection is one of the basic dogmas of Judaism. The concept is that, at the end of the end day, there...