The Torah identifies two principal aspects of Rosh Hashanah. First, it is a day of teruah (horn blowing), and its purpose is zikaron (remembrance)....
Read MoreRebbe Pinchas Menachem Alter, zy’a, the Pnei Menachem of Ger (d. 1996), was widely respected as a wise and unassuming tzaddik and was...
Read MoreRosh Hashanah is the Day of Judgment. The fate of individuals is weighed, and the course of nations and empires...
Read MoreIn my family, we host a Rosh Hashanah “seder” each year. Part of this is related to my wife’s Sephardic...
Read MoreIt’s almost here. Selichos. The cooking and related preparations are underway. Most of Rosh Hashanah is an interplay between your heart...
Read MoreMy brother Binyomin, a’h, has three great daughters: Perel, Naomi, and Malkie. Let me tell you two things about them. Perel is...
Read MoreThere is a longstanding tradition in preparation for the Yomim Noraim for people to undertake new resolutions—to generate additional merits as we...
Read MoreRabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman is the founder of Migdal Ohr who recognized Shani Levi’s musical talent Atara Solow, executive director,...
Read MoreOne night at the Western Wall in the midst of Selichot prayers, I wondered when the thousands of teenagers around me would...
Read MoreA fascinating debate broke out last week over a question that sounds semantic but is actually profound. Though it wasn’t...
Read MoreThis past month, Congresswoman Laura Gillen (NY-04) traveled across Nassau County to deliver millions in federal funding to communities, meet...
Read MoreStudents will earn a Yeshiva University bachelor's degree in a program that pairs in-person Torah study with a world-class business...
Read MoreEven the most organized homes have that one spot. A junk drawer in the kitchen, a storage closet in the...
Read MoreI just got back from Thailand where I took my daughter for her bat mitzvah trip. It was just the two of...
Read MoreThis is a story my husband Haim told me that is too cute not to share: “Today, my Indian neighbor...
Read MoreThere is a distinct energy that arrives with September. Across our neighborhoods, yellow school buses return to the roads, backpacks...
Read MoreQuestion I read your letter last week about the man who was dating a beautiful woman that everyone had warned...
Read MoreCemetery of Tovste, Ukraine where the Baal Shem Tov’s mother Sarah is buried Menny with Uri Lazar of Lawrence, who...
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