God was not in the fire, but God’s voice is within us, guiding us through yet another Hurban, another destruction, calling on ...

After 100 years serving the local Jewish community, the Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center was destroyed in the Eaton Fire. The ...

There will be Shabbat services in Pasadena this weekend. That’s far more remarkable than it seems, considering the utter ...

The Mechaber (Yoreh De’ah 282:19, 283:1) rules accordingly, and explains that a scroll binding the five books of the Pentateuch together still does not achieve the status of a Torah scroll and ...

Is it halakhically permitted to recite L’Hadlik Ner (Shel) Hanukkah – To Kindle the Hanukkah Light – over an electric menorah? In his book Mayim Hayim, Rabbi Yosef Messas not only permits ...

Our holy book is actually a collection of books called the Tanakh, and the first five, known as the Torah are the most important. In the shul, we usually read the Torah aloud in Hebrew from ...

Lis Harris, in her book Holy Days, describes it as otherworldly ... They believe that the Torah, the five books of Moses, is the literal word of God, and that carrying out this word is what ...

There was a major shift in the world of Torah scholarship 2,200 years ago. A new light was born in response to the Greeks' ...

“The State of Israel takes very seriously this shameful decision that damages the Holy of Holies of the Jewish people. The sacred books of all religions must be respected.” Israeli ...