Yiddish World Blog ties weekly Torah portion with works of Yiddish writers For last week’s portion, the blog matches the story of Jacob’s daughter Dina with a poem about her by the poet Itsik Manger.

In this week’s Torah portion, we meet Betzalel, son of Uri, son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah for the second time. In this week’s Torah portion, God threatens to destroy the entire nation of Israel ...

In Vayera, this week’s Torah portion, Abraham is in extreme pain — yet he is eager to reach out to strangers in warmth.

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Have you ever been reading the weekly Torah portion and thought to yourself, “I could really use a drink”? If you know that feeling, we have just the blog for you: Tippling Through the Torah, a ...

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A question Pirkei Avot asks is: Who is wise? To which the answer is: one who learns from every person. Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb is a very wise man, and there is a lot we can learn from him. In his ...

Jill Crimmings smoothly rolls three balls of challah dough into even strands. She lifts them, joining them together with a pinch, before laying them down to braid. But the loaf of challah, the ...

Shabbat Zachor — the Sabbath of Remembering — calls on us to remember and reflect on events that are not the most pleasant of memories. It is the annual Shabbat preceding Purim when, in addition to ...