Once called the Jerusalem of Lithuania, the city of Vilna was a vibrant center of Jewish life for centuries until ...

Many pious Jews undertook voluntary exile to atone for sin and improve character. The legendary Gaon of Vilna, Rabbi Eliyahu ...

Jews lived in Lithuania for centuries until the Holocaust. It had been the intellectual hub of the Jewish world, producing ...

"Path of the Righteous" by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto is the primer on Jewish ethics. In it he describes a ...

Rabbi Tzvi Ashkenazi, the Chacham Tzvi, spearheaded the campaign to uproot all vestiges of the false messiah Sabbatai Zevi and ...

Messianic beliefs die hard and even survive the death of obviously failed dead messiahs. Such was the case with Sabbatai ...

Abraham Joshua Heschel penned a classic description of Jewish life in the shtetl, portraying its rich spiritual life and scholarship.

One should never confuse Jews with Judaism. No matter how disappointed you are in Jews, it should in no way ...

When the Church excommunicated Martin Luther it made him more famous. What does Judaism say about excommunication? The answer has ...

The mercantile system created a new reality for Jewish businessmen, and new challenges for Jewish law and the rabbis applying ...