"Comfort your people, comfort them," says God. These are the opening words of this week’s Haftarah taken from the book of Isaiah. Isaiah...

In this week's Torah portion, Matot/Maaseh, Moses records the itinerary of the Israelites' march from Egypt to the banks of the Jordan...

Yesterday we entered the somber period between the 17th of Tammuz and the 9th of Av, known as the Three Weeks. We are called upon to...