Mount sinai

Rosh Hashanah 2026: The Jewish people must answer the shofar’s call to unity - opinion

In a year marked by antisemitism and uncertainty, the Jewish community has shown the strength that comes from standing together as one people.

 An illustrative photo of a man blowing a shofar, a ceremonial ram's horn, which is done repeatedly on Rosh Hashanah.
 Moses is seen breaking the Tablets after coming down from Mount Sinai.

Parashat Eikev: With respect for the past

Almond trees bloom near the border with Lebanon.

Parashat Korah: The story of the almond – and of diligence

Truth

Parashat Shlah: The absolute truth


The six most important days in Jewish history

Over 1.2 million days have passed since we left Egypt. To pick just a few days to visit is an impossible task. Yet in my fantasies over the years, I kept settling on the same few days.

 TOUGHEST HEROES in tears: Rabbi Shlomo Goren sounds the shofar at the liberation of the Western Wall, 1967.

Seeing the speaking mouth: A Jewish approach to the material world

The creative impulse takes on progressively greater shape, finally culminating in the tangible creation of the physical universe

 Sunrise is seen from the summit of Mount Sinai in Egypt.

Shavuot: Between revelation and revolution - comment

In each generation, the Jew has an obligation to follow and interpret the Torah, assuring that the Sinaic tradition will endure and never die out.

  JEWS CELEBRATE in Tel Aviv moments after the UN voted to partition Mandatory Palestine, on November 29, 1947. There is little doubt that Judaism would have withered had it not been for the establishment of a Jewish state, says the writer.

Shavuot: The voice of God in the revelation on Sinai

The revelation at Mount Sinai of the Torah remains a mystery as to what exactly happened and what exactly was heard.

MICHELANGELO’S ‘Creation of Adam’ – God as pure thought or reason?

Parashat Yitro: What preceded the receiving of the Torah?

The parasha is called Yitro because it begins with the story of Jethro coming to the Israelites’ encampment.

MOSES ON Mount Sinai as depicted by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1895.

Ancient Christian manuscripts digitized at monastery beneath Mount Sinai

The monastery lies at the foot of Mount Sinai, by tradition the site where Moses received the Ten Commandments.

Tourists watch the sunrise and pray outside a church on the summit of Mount Moses, near the city of Saint Catherine, in the Sinai Peninsula, south of Egypt, December 9, 2015

Novel Speech

Shvimer-Rothschild: "It is important for us to make our treatment accessible to people around the globe."

Lilach Shvimer-Rothschild, Co-Founder and COO of NovoTalk.

Non-rabbinic intellectual understanding of the importance of God

The Jerusalem Post