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Ai Ai Ai!

Is AI a useful tool? Is it something we should be worried about? Will it replace us? These are all...

A Window Into Widows

Part II In last week’s essay, we started to discuss the etymology of the Biblical Hebrew word almanah(“widow”). In the essay...

Yom Yerushalayim: Our Gratitude and Prayers

We celebrate Yom Yerushalayim this year during a tumultuous time, marked by a heightened sense of vulnerability and fragility. Alongside...

Envy Of The Tzadikim

Reb Simcha Bunim of Peshischa was known for his unique emphasis on the importance of one’s individual relationship to the Ribbono...

Is This Trip Necessary?

We are about to complete the reading of the Torah’s third book, Sefer Vayikra, also known as the Laws of the...

What We Carry Until We Speak

They hadn’t been together in years. Fourteen siblings, each carrying different versions of their childhood, had not spoken for a...

Yom Yerushalayim: From Ethiopia To Jerusalem

By Moshe Phillips “We’ve been dreaming of Jerusalem for many years. We’re the generation that fulfilled that dream. It shows...

Remembering Reb Yitzchok Mordechai Halevi (Itche) Fink: A Boro Park Legend Passes At 104 Zeidy at simcha Reb Yitzchok Mordechai...

To Save An Extraordinary Life, Help Keep Zelig At Home

Zelig Nirenberg  The meaning of chesed is rich, multifaceted, and encompasses everything from an attribute of Hashem to a call to action...

Climbing The Ladder

By Sivan Rahav Meir The accompanying illustration is a reflection of what we’re going through these days during the Counting...

A Plane With Strings Attached: When A Gift Is Not A Gimme

By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg Heads turned this week at the news that President Trump is planning to accept a $400...

Then And Now

 These are the songs of days and years and decades gone by. Songs by iconic composers like Rabbis Shlomo Carlebach...

Trusting Trump

By Larry Gordon We cannot blame Donald Trump for not trying to put things in order here in the U.S....

The School Year Twilight

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Magence We’re at that funny point in the year when the kids seem to have collectively...

Torah And Tefilla: A Two-Step Dance

By Yochanan Gordon Rebbe Nachman of Breslov taught that a Jew must turn their Torah into tefillah—not simply learn, but cry,...

Half A Pasuk In This World, Half A Pasuk In The Next

erBy Rabbi Benny Berlin We find ourselves approaching Lag B’Omer, a day that commemorates the life and teachings of Rabbi...

Building The Foundation Of Trust

“Our Father, our King! For the sake of our forefathers who trusted in You, and whom You taught statutes of...

Sanctity, Silence, And Suffering

I am departing Buenos Aires for the second time after spending a week consulting with the community regarding the ongoing...