Today, light is ambient and inexpensive. We leave it on without noticing. Against that backdrop, the requirement of a steady flow of pure oil for the Mishkan’s lighting can easily be underestimated.

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This is evidenced in the four types of legal damages which are discussed in parshas Mishpatim: 1) “Shor” (ox) includes ...

Seated inside a ballroom on the campus of an all-girls religious school, the heavy hitters of Haredi Orthodox Judaism stared grimly into the future. Rabbi Elya Ber Wachtfogel, head of the prestigious ...

Thanks for joining our study. Perhaps you are here for a reason. I was "called" to write about this topic after last week's study. In my interview with Museum of the Bible President and CEO, Carlos ...

A group of haredi businessmen and Jewish donors from the US has announced the establishment of a new framework titled the “Coalition for Torah Study and Security,” declaring that it will cease ...

The Dean of the Beit El Yeshiva, Rabbi Zalman Melamed, in a conversation with Arutz Sheva-Israel National News on Thursday, called for a conscription bill that does not provide exemptions to those who ...

In Israel today, the Haredi question is no longer a marginal sociological issue. It sits at the center of our politics, our economy, and our social fabric: mass draft exemptions, low male workforce ...

While the Haredi “million man” protest in Jerusalem on Thursday was widely billed as a demonstration against serving in the Israel Defense Forces — with the Supreme Court having ruled their ...

Simchat Torah celebrates the role of the Torah in Jewish history. This holiday is not mandated by the Torah itself but emerged through Jewish custom over time. The practice of completing the Torah ...

Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the ...