The Koren Publishers’ Newsletter is excited to announce a new monthly feature; Staff Picks. Every month a different member of our team will tell us about some of their favorite titles or give their recommendations for books that you may have missed, but certainly deserve your attention. Meet the people who make the books you love,…
The Koren Publishers’ Newsletter is excited to announce a new monthly feature; Staff Picks. Every month a different member of our team will tell us about some of their favorite titles or give their recommendations for books that you may have missed, but certainly deserve your attention. Meet the people who make the books you…
This week, on November 6th – the 29th of Heshvan – the Ethiopian Jewish community (called Beta Israel) will celebrate a holiday called Sigd. The holiday, meaning “prostration”, has been celebrated for generations. On this day, the community ascends a high mountain (a symbol of Mt. Sinai) and gathers as the priest (the kes) reads…
We recently had the privilege of speaking with Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb about the deeper meaning of Tisha B’Av. Rabbi Weinreb, a clinical psychotherapist and internationally-renowned Torah scholar, hosts the OU’s annual Tisha B’Av webcast. He is also the translator of the kinot in The Lookstein Edition of the Mesorat HaRav Kinot
In Judaism, lengthy prayer services on the Yom Tovim can inspire reactions that range from uplifted to frustrated. The text, the additional services, the Torah and Haftarah readings come to bring us closer to the themes and significance of these special days, yet often seem foreign to many of us. To address this challenge, a…
(This essay appears in Seder Talk: The Conversational Haggada by Dr. Erica Brown.) On the night of the Seder, everyone is a king. Everyone is a free person. Thus, everyone is entitled to experience freedom deeply. For the poor, the problem standing between himself and the re-enactment of freedom this night is only what money…
The following is taken from our newest Passover Haggada: Redemption, Then and Now by the prolific Rabbi Benjamin Blech. What is it about the Jews that makes us so special? Scholars have long wondered why Jews who number less than one-quarter of 1% of the world – as Milton Himmelfarb memorably put it, “The total…