Jews around the world are familiar with the custom of a child (or children) asking the Four Questions during seders on the first night of Passover. But there is another special custom that concludes ...

It was the custom of the Baal Shem Tov to partake of three meals on the last day of Passover. The third meal, which took place late in the afternoon, was known as the "Festive Meal of Moshiach," or ...

The study of the timing of the redemption is an august subject that should be touched only with great trepidation. Many are the sages who know better than the humble writer of this article, and so I ...

Last October, I was pushing our baby stroller on La Cienega Boulevard when an Orthodox man driving a “Sukkah-mobile” (a car with a small sukkah strapped to the roof) drove by, blaring the song, ...

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Throughout the millennia of our bitter exile, our ancestors pined for Moshiach to come and redeem us. For many years, Jews were cruelly oppressed by the masses among whom they lived and by autocratic ...

“Yehudah’s siring of Peretz reflected how ‘the cure preceded the blow.’ Before the first power to subjugate the Jews [Pharaoh ...

After an armed insurrection at the Capitol, rampant conspiracy theories about a stolen election and social media blackouts for President Donald Trump, some WhatsApp, YouTube and Facebook users in ...

The Gemara (Bava Basra 10b-11a) records a story in which the mother of the king of Persia offered donations to two great yeshivos. Rabbi Ami turned down the gift for his yeshiva, while Rava accepted ...

Moshiach is here. He gets his mail in Crown Heights, and was blessed, years ago, by the rebbe of Chabad. OK, so he didn’t ride in on a donkey, he drives a Toyota. Such are the perks of modernity.