Celebrated immediately after Christmas, St Stephen’s Day highlights how the joy of Christ’s birth is tied to sacrifice, ...

I have been accused of using “big words” in my writing. My defence is: look to your phone, google it, learn the word. Second, ...

On St. Stephen’s Day, observed on the third day of Christmas, the Orthodox Church commemorates the first Christian martyr, ...

There is no reason in the world why death should be imposed by people of good will, of intelligence, of kindness – people in ...

The Flip: Use Pikuach Nefesh (saving a life). Halakha is clear: the sanctity of life supersedes almost every other commandment, including the Sabbath. Carrying for protection isn’t an “indignity”—it’s ...

The Levites were the officers responsible for the fulfillment of the commandments of war. From here we learn that yeshiva ...

And this leads to a surprising truth: the relationship we rarely found in life is now emerging in a new form. My Kaddish ...

The carol says, “Good King Wenceslas last looked out on the Feast of Stephen.” In many countries, December 26, also known as ...

On December 27 the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast Day of Agios Stefanos. Saint Stephen was the first of the seven ...

The message of Christmas is joy to the world. The first Christmas heralded the birth of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.

Your old columnist finds it hard to see the why of resistance to Jewish believers in our beloved USofA. Southwest Nebraska has only a small Jewish population, a reflection of settlement patterns ...

St. Nicodemus was a secret disciple of Jesus. As a member of the Sanhedrin, he would meet Jesus by night so that the others would not see him with Jesus. Eventually, it was Nicodemus who reminded the ...