Many questions loom from the recent Pesach departure. Shouldn’t matzah—not chametz—be the year-round required food? Let holiness be stretched out to the maximum, not to a small finite eight ...

Update: All lanes have reopened. NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) — Police are investigating a fatal crash involving a bicyclist in North Charleston. The crash happened around 2:20 p.m. Friday on ...

Parashat “Shemini” details the types of animals that are permitted to be eaten and the identifying signs that distinguish them. The Talmud expounds on the verse at the end of the portion ...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - A portion of State Route 7 in Washington County is now named after a Vietnam War hero. An unveiling was held Thursday afternoon for the naming of State Route 7 in ...

A bench of justice Manmeet PS Arora opined that the parliamentarian had failed to give a “reasonable explanation” for non-compliance. The Delhi high court on Thursday ordered the attachment of ...

UPDATE (2:30 p.m.): Florida Highway Patrol officials have released information regarding a crash that left a portion of Highway 98 blocked for hours Thursday morning. The FHP crash report said a ...

We almost always read parshat shemini during the period of tragedy and transition from Passover to Yom Hashoah, and Yom Hazikaron. We often ask ourselves what is the “right” reaction to unfair ...

Crews have contained nearly all of a brush fire that started over the weekend near Bear Mountain in Carbon County. The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and National Resource’s Bureau of ...

Two people were taken to the hospital following a four-vehicle crash along Route 30 in Westmoreland County Wednesday afternoon. Sky 4, Pittsburgh's only news chopper, flew over the scene along ...

Regarding all crawling creatures that only crawl on the ground—i.e., the snake, who moves about bent over; any creature that moves about only on its belly; the scorpion, who walks on four legs ...

If one reason why we refrain from chametz is to experience a hint of suffering, when do we begin to feel a sense of freedom? Some may say freedom arrives with the first taste of pizza. But I begin ...

EL CAJON, California — Parasha Shemini is a parsha of contrasts—joy and tragedy, awe and restraint, silence and song. But running beneath it all is a powerful spiritual teaching: when we live ...