At what age do Levites begin serving in the tabernacle? The early chapters of the book of Bamidbar provide contradictory answers to this seemingly straightforward question. In Parshat Naso (4:3), ...

We’ll be examining the historical, psychological, and halakhic implications of why Shevet Levi (the tribe of Levi) was chosen ...

In the previous two columns, I explained that in time of war for the defense of the Nation and the Land, members of the tribe of Levi enlisted and fought more than the other tribes. First, the Kohanim ...

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt was the Chief Rabbi of Moscow, Russia and served as president of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), which unites over seven hundred communal rabbis from Dublin, Ireland ...

A team of geneticists studying the ancestry of Jewish communities has found an unusual genetic signature that occurs in more than half the Levites of European descent. The gene is thought to have ...

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This program trains IDF soldiers to 'join the tribe' ...