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Life has a way of making us stop and reflect—sometimes in moments we never expected, and sometimes while staring at the ceiling at 2 a.m., wondering if we accidentally...
Back To Basics
By Yochanan Gordon
With Purim in the rear-view mirror, the end of the year is well within our view and the new year beginning with “Hachodesh hazeh lachem Rosh Chodoshim,...
Musings Of A Shliach From Montana
There’s Purim and then there’s Purim.
There are Purims when we are surrounded by the holy Mordechais who “never bow or kneel” and the Esthers who live life recognizing Divine...
Purim Aftermath
One of the scripturally derived mitzvos of Purim, described in the Megillah, is sending gifts of food, called mishloach manos, to friends and neighbors. Some look at this as a joyful...
Landmark Orthodox Union Study Informs Communal Understanding of Individuals Who Leave Orthodoxy
A groundbreaking study from the Orthodox Union’s Center for Communal Research (CCR) sheds light on the lives of individuals who choose to leave the Orthodox community, while also prompting...
V’nehafoch Hu: Hidden Miracles
I had the singular merit to study with one of the previous generation's Torah giants. The Los Angeles Rosh Yeshiva, HaGaon Rav Elazar Simcha Wasserman z’l, was the oldest...
Tomato/Somato
By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Magence
Last week, after writing an article I didn’t really plan on writing (after the deadline for submission) and sending it to my father for questions/comments/long-awaited...
The Costumes We Don’t See
By Rabbi Zvi Gluck
As Purim approaches, the question on everyone’s mind is what you will dress up as this year.
Will you be an Israeli soldier? A Kohen Gadol? Maybe...
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