“ In distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and brought me relief.” (Psalms 118:5) “The torments of Sheol ...

KIRYAT ARBA — Hallel Yaffa Ariel’s funeral service began just a few feet away from where she was brutally stabbed to death. On Thursday evening, the 13-year-old’s body was covered in a shroud and laid ...

Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) is invested with three sanctities: 1) the sanctity of the mitzvah of yishuv ha’aretz (Settling the Land), which is a mitzvah equivalent to all the mitzvot. 2) ...

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The Tosefta’s ruling, however, reflects the fact that in ancient times, written texts of any kind were scarce. Today, punctuated, printed Haggadot are ubiquitous; many even feature a vernacular ...

How much longer can we wait to begin incorporating the watershed political and religious events of our time into our calendar? IDF soldiers celebrate at the Western Wall in 1967_370 (photo credit: ...

Answer: The rule of tadir v’she’eino tadir, tadir kodem is why, for example, on Chanukah Rosh Chodesh Tevet, we first read the reading of Rosh Chodesh, which comes around once a month, before the ...

The mother of an Israeli-American teen stabbed to death in her West Bank bedroom has spoken out, denouncing the "hate" that claimed her young daughter's life. Hallel Ariel, 13, had just finished the ...

Ghanaian gospel musician, Pastor Edwin Dadson, has released a new praise medley titled 'Hallel Praise' featuring Joe Mettle. 'Hallel Praise' follows already released singles, 'Me and My House' feat ...

It’s 7:30 a.m. on a school day. Two parents are racing to get their three young children dressed, fed, packed for the day, into coats and out the door when 6-year-old Hallel runs downstairs, crying.