Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau visits a Talmud Torah in Bat Ayin (Gush Etzion) at the beginning of the school year.
By Sara Lehmann
It is not the role of schools or government to make people feel good about themselves. Self-esteem comes with productivity, not in the absence of it.
By Shalom Bear
Millions of adults in Israel are unusually happy today as 2,129,562 children return to school for the start of the school year.
By Tzvi Fishman
It was impossible to tell which thought gave Tevye more happiness. The thought of stepping foot in Jerusalem, or the thought of seeing his Hodel again. True, Hodel was his own flesh and blood. She was like a little piece of his Golda.
By Tzvi Fishman
"Didn't I tell you that everything God does works out for the best?" Tevye said to Nachman as everyone gathered excitedly around the coffin on the beach. "If the Turks had let us disembark in Jaffa, I would never have seen my Golda wash up on shore."
By Moshe Herman
Yishai interviews iconic Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz about his recently-released edition of the Talmud.