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What Is a Yetzer Hara and the Secret of Getting Rid of It?The yetzer hara is an instinctive impulse for self-gratification (bad), embodied by the emotional re... Read More
The Financial Strategy Your Economics Professor Never Taught You The deeper I went into the Torah’s approach to giving, the more I realized how precise that financia... Read More

Weekly Magazine

Extreme Judaism! 12 Facts About Jewish Life in the Polar Regions

While there isn’t a synagogue at the North Pole (yet!), there has been, and there still is, a Jewish presence not far from the Arctic and Antarctic Circles.

By Yehuda Altein

Why Do We Write Hebrew from Right to Left?

Learn the answer to this simple-seeming question in the light of history, Jewish law, and kabbalah.

By Yehuda Shurpin

Take the Jewish Songs Quiz

Who composed the common tune for “Eishet Chayil”?

By Menachem Posner

What Is a Yetzer Hara and How Do I Get Rid of It?

The yetzer hara is an instinctive impulse for self-gratification (bad), embodied by the emotional responses of the beast within you.

By Tzvi Freeman

The Financial Strategy Your Economics Professor Never Taught You

The deeper I went into the Torah’s approach to giving, the more I realized how precise that financial framework is.