The earliest instances of Lavi as a first name that I know about are all found in the halachic responsa of the Algerian Sage Rabbi Yitzchak bar Sheshet (1326–1408), also known as the Rivash.

What begins as a disheartening struggle through fertility treatments gradually evolves into something far more transformative.

Young conservatives are disillusioned with politics, hostile to institutions, and suspicious of anything that sounds prepackaged. If you try to silence dissent, they tune you out.

Last week, the world was shocked to learn that Conservative activist, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated on a Utah campus, while engaging in civil discourse with students. The far right and the far left ...

Before the recitation of the berachos preceding the blowing of the shofar, the shofar is placed on the bimah and covered with a tallis. If the ba’al tokei’a has more than one shofar, and/or other ...

It is noteworthy that during the Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur liturgy, we proclaim that three things remove an evil decree: Teshuvah, repentance, for it acts as an erasure for our sins; tefillah, ...

Although it has become one of the most familiar and participatory rituals of the High Holiday season that is embedded in contemporary Jewish practice, the extralegal origins of Tashlich and the contro ...

We notice what screams for attention: a fractured relationship, a career setback, a health scare. But what about what seems fine? A marriage that’s good enough. A spiritual life that’s lukewarm. A ...

We can readily understand the dilemma the three top democratic elected officials faced. Undoubtedly, he is not their preferred candidate and as noted, a particularly fraught one at that.

In the pre-war years, life for Jews in Serbia was in many ways like Jewish life in America: Jews were integrated into every part of society. They were merchants, doctors, lawyers, and intellectuals.

Goodman points out the Rambam is clearly hinting at his own suffering from his life – sea-voyage, or service of kings, indeed perhaps even a self-rebuke in the line they complain of the decrees and ...

We have brief moments of inspiration, but they soon fade into oblivion, only to be resuscitated for a few more days the next year in the hopes that somehow this year might be different.