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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

Pinchas, the name of this week’s parsha, contained in the Book of Numbers in chapters 26-30, embodies a story unique in all of Torah. In chapter 27, five sisters, identified as the daughters of ...

Donald Trump’s obsession with numbers became evident immediately following his inauguration. He and his press secretary, Sean Spicer, insisted repeatedly that the event drew the largest numbers ever, ...

Edie Windsor, who brought the lawsuit that this week felled the Defense of Marriage Act, is Jewish. So was her wife, Thea Spyer, who died in 2009. The federal government’s insistence on ignoring the ...

For people of my generation born in the 1950s, the defining Jewish historical event of our lifetime was the 1967 Six-Day War. Israel’s miraculous military victory defined our relationship with the ...

Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad…. And they stood before Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying… [Numbers ...

On a recent trip to New York, I spent Shabbat morning at The Jewish Center in Manhattan, a vibrant Modern Orthodox community. As services came to a close, the 500 congregants did not make the typical ...

Edie Windsor’s lawyer tells how she joined with the five persuasive daughters of Zelophehad to face down John Roberts. Edie Windsor, who brought the lawsuit that this week felled the Defense of ...