Two of the most important concepts in Judaism are derived from this week’s Torah portion, Emor. They are: kiddush hashem, the mitzvah of sanctifying God’s name, and chillul hashem, profaning God’s ...

When Yishai Schlissel stabbed six people at the gay pride march in Jerusalem, he committed far more than the crime of assault. His crime was not that of an individual against other individuals. He ...

A few weeks ago, an article was published in the Daily News about the prejudice that a Hasidic man encounters every day in New York City. The author wrote that he was standing in a West Village bar ...

This week on the streets of Golders Green, we witnessed a great Kiddush Hashem. What do I mean by this? In Parshat Emor, the Torah gives us the mitzvah of Kiddush ...

Portion of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo’s The Sacrifice of Isaac, mid-1750s. The Kli Yakar observes that this is a tribute to Pinchas’s mesiras nefesh (self-sacrifice) for the honor of Hashem. Dovid ...

I was filled with immense pride as a fellow Jew brought unbridled joy to a rowdy redneck crowd that might never before have seen a Jewish performer up close. “Truly, God was in this place, and I did ...

I have spent the last week in Camp Moshava in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Being here has been a real treat. Camp Moshava is a living breathing “kiddush Hashem”. One of the many outstanding aspects of my ...

We are living in interesting times. In years past, it would be clear that an intermarriage, between a Jew and a Methodist, with a rabbi and a Methodist minister co-officiating, on a Shabbat afternoon, ...

When you hear the term activist, what comes to mind? If you’re like me, you probably think of a person super-passionate about immigration reform, saving the whales or something like that. Yet, in the ...

As reported on Arutz Sheva, Miriam Adelson made a powerful statement to former President Donald Trump at the opening session of the IAC Conference, emphasizing the Jewish faith's reliance on the ...