Dr. Jeffrey Folks is the author of Heartland of the Imagination (2011).

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS. He can be followed on Twitter, @jonathans_tobin.

Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is director of the Schulmann School of Basic Jewish Studies and professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. She is the author of, among several ...

Rabbi Shlomo Rosenblatt gives a daily daf yomi shiur and has been a rebbi at Yeshiva Derech HaTorah for 15 years. His talmidim and alumni are the inspiration for his divrei Torah; there is no better ...

Rabbi Yehuda Levin is a longtime Torah pro-family activist. He hosts Levin@11, Thursday evenings, on 620 WSNR AM radio; episodes are also available on YouTube. He can be reached at ...

Phil Chernofsky was the founding editor of the popular weekly Torah Tidbits, published by the OU Israel Center, where he served as educational director for 38 years. He now maintains PhiloTorah ...

Abortion is complex on many levels – halachically, hashkafically, emotionally, and politically. For the American Jewish community, the issue is fraught because of the secular laws and politics ...

“Male adult goat,” from Naples, Italy, second half 18th century. A goat represents impetuousness, as it jumps about and often in the Gemara is a symbol of an animal that breaks boundaries (Sukkah 14b) ...

“Rabbi Harry M. Felder had a congregation for more than 60 years,” Felder shared, “and [with] my mother, may she rest in peace as well, the two of them opened a small synagogue in 1952, which was in ...

Chizuk, “to be strong,” is often experienced as a strengthening derived from some external source of inspiration. We all have appreciated some good chizuk at one point in our lives. Yet chizuk that ...