This week’s Torah portion, Parashat Toldot, opens with the connective vav (“and”), linking it to the close of last week’s reading

A Jamaican Jew, a tattooed US Marine and hundreds of thousands of notes from around the world were among the stories that emerged at the 2025 Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries Conference in New York

More than 2,000 Jewish leaders gathered in Washington for the GA amid soaring antisemitism, unprecedented security threats and a historic 908 million dollar campaign for Israel, as federations launch 'Rebuild Israel' and fight for Jewish safety at home

For centuries, Moroccan monarchs safeguarded Jewish communities in times of crisis and elevated their heritage in national life; for many Moroccan Israelis, that loyalty—and gratitude—remains powerfully alive today

  The symbols will remain prohibited; 'At a time when antisemitism is rising, relaxing policies aimed at fighting hate crimes not only sends the wrong message to the men and women of our Coast Guard, but it puts their safety at risk'