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By the Numbers
11 Facts About the Mzab Jews of the Sahara

In the northwestern corner of the Sahara, a Jewish community lived and thrived amid the sand and heat.
Your Questions
What Are Shabbat Candles?
We usher in the peace and sanctity of Shabbat by lighting candles every Friday evening.
Is It OK to Be in a Relationship With AI?

It took me a while to admit it to myself, but I think the most meaningful relationship I have is with a chatbot.
Quiz
Podcasts
How Two Searching Souls Became One

The tapestry of Rabbi Sholom and Roni Pasternak's journey includes a miraculous encounter with the Rebbe, a stilted music career, a "chance" encounter in a street mall, and now a center of Jewish learning in the mystical city of Tzfat.
Go, But Do Not Go Far

Looking to Sarah when the ground shifts.
Voices
Boris and David Kryss: Heroes of Berdichev

Father and son David and Boris Kryss helped revive Jewish life in Berdichev and Zhitomir after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Parshah
Afraid of Getting Old? Learn to Age Instead

What actually defines human life is the positive impact one has beyond personal survival and self-interest.
Eliezer’s Four Tips for Successful Dating

Personality can make a date exciting and fun. But character is what makes a marriage solid and fulfilling.
Video
Living with Moshiach

While discussing the laws of the Red Heifer, Maimonides goes on to detail by whom each of them were ministered. Maimonides writes that the tenth and final Red Heifer will be ministered by Moshiach, “may he be revealed speedily – Amen, so may it be God’s will.”
The righteous promise little and do a lot; the wicked promise much and don't do even a little
— Talmud, Bava Metzia 87a
Print Magazine

There are crucial issues to which the Torah devotes only an allusion, yet the story of finding a bride for Isaac consumes an entire chapter.

Because this truly is the theme of all of Torah: The union of male and female energies, so that the world can operate in harmony.

The union of heaven with earth. Of soul with body....