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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.
Your Questions
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.
Quiz
Take the Jewish Songs Quiz

Who composed the common tune for “Eishet Chayil”?
Freeman Files
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 responses of the beast within you.
Voices
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.
Parshah
How to Stop Being Paralyzed by Your Problems

What is the difference between a threat and a challenge?
History
Blood, Tears, and Stone

Lifestyle
From the time that I was a child attending cheder, and even before, there began to take form in my mind a picture of the future redemption--the redemption of Israel from its last exile, a redemption such as would explicate the suffering, the decrees and the massacres of galut.
— From a letter by the Lubavitcher Rebbe