Exile

A reader asks why we avoid haircuts and music for weeks during the Omer, yet don't mark the Holocaust the same way—and why keep mourning something from thousands of years ago.

One letter lit a fire in Menachem’s heart that never went out. That night he knew: he would make aliyah to Eretz Yisrael. No more life in exile. And that’s exactly what he did.

What we’re really celebrating as Passover approaches: the power of unity.

Three centuries ago in Vienna, Rabbi Shimshon Wertheimer told the king that jealousy and hate keep us in exile. A night in the forest put that claim to the test.

Why Sanctifying the New Moon Was the First Commandment of Freedom