Joy is a very holy pursuit. And no day exemplifies this more than Purim.

The much longer exile of Greece ended through the merit of Jacob. But the last and current exile has lasted nearly 2,000 ...

Insights from Toras Harav Levi Yitzchok Schneerson, the Rebbe's father, presented by Shliach Rabbi Dovid Dubov of New Jersey, for Parshas Teruma: Answers the Vilna Gaon’s Question. Full Story, Video ...

If I had not met Rabbi Kook I would be missing fifty percent of my personality. Rabbi Kook was a GRA (Vilna Gaon, 1720–1797) student. A person's stature is similar to a house that has upper and ...

Imagine the Vilna Gaon sitting there and he says, “Teach each child according to his way and even when he is old he will not depart from it. This requires of the teacher and parent to understand ...

which opened last year and is an extension of the famed Vilna Gaon Museum. The primary focus of discussion between the two presidents was the hoped-for speedy return of the hostages who are still ...

In his youth, he was a study partner of the Gaon (“genius”) of Vilna, Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman, who led the initial opposition against Hassidism. Later, however, he became a disciple of ...

The coin celebrates the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Vilna Gaon, an 18th-century rabbinical luminary. (JTA) — The Bank of Lithuania minted a euro piece of currency containing Hebrew ...

The legendary 18th-century sage known as the Gaon of Vilna originally was buried there, though his remains were moved in 1949. (The Soviets allowed local Jews to move only seven bodies from ...