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4 days ago · The primary responsibility for the Holocaust rests on Hitler and the Nazi Party's leadership, but operations to persecute Jews, Romani people, homosexuals and others were also perpetrated by the Schutzstaffel (SS), the Wehrmacht, and ordinary German citizens as well as by collaborationist members of various European governments, including ...
4 days ago · “Though Torah scholars had ‘light in their dwellings,’ for the ordinary people (and even more so for the unlettered folk) the world was a dark house—until the Baal Shem Tov emerged and ‘began to radiate light.’”13. Previously, many thought that the only acceptable path to serving G‑d was Torah study, the purview of the lucky few.
6 days ago · As the world prepares to mark 30 years since the passing of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—new books, essays, podcasts and events attempt to convey what it was that set the Rebbe apart and what made his leadership as resonant today as it was during his lifetime.
4 days ago · Questions and answers exploring the very core of Judaism. With such questions as life's purpose, the existence of G‑d, the purpose of the Chosen People, the holocaust, science vs religion and intermarriage.
3 days ago · The history of the Jews in Russia and areas historically connected with it goes back at least 1,500 years. Jews in Russia have historically constituted a large religious and ethnic diaspora; the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world. [9]
2 hours ago · Zionism. Theodor Herzl was the founder of the modern Zionist movement. In his 1896 pamphlet Der Judenstaat, he envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish state during the 20th century. Zionism [a] (derived from Zion) is an ethnic or ethno-cultural nationalist [1] [fn 1] movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and ...
4 days ago · Orthodox Judaism, the religion of those Jews who adhere most strictly to traditional beliefs and practices. Jewish Orthodoxy resolutely refuses to accept the position of Reform Judaism that the Bible and other sacred Jewish writings contain not only eternally valid moral principles but also historically and culturally conditioned adaptations ...
