Extreme Trauma: When Evil Struck, Human Greatness Answered
Review By Gavriel Aryeh Sanders
On October 7, 2023, the world saw evil uncloaked. But what many haven’t seen—what Extreme Trauma: October 7 as an Outlier in the Range of...
Orthodox Union Draws Nearly 140 Women at ‘Women Unight’ Event Engaging Emerging Career Professionals
Manhattan’s Moise Safra Center was abuzz earlier this month as nearly 140 young professional women representing a diverse spectrum of hashkafot gathered for social and spiritual enrichment at the...
Shemini: Sefira and Redemption
The period of Sefirat HaOmer links Pesach to Matan Torah and includes our modern-day commemorations of our miraculous return to Zion, creating an exceptionally rich season of meaning and...
Yom HaShoah And Echoes of Hatred: Antisemitism from 1940 to 2023
The Holocaust should not be conflated with the painful memories of October 7th. Though both mark unimaginable Jewish suffering, they are not the same.
The Holocaust spanned five harrowing years....
The Freedom Of Simplicity
By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
Tariffs and free trade. AI and the proliferation of technology. There are many issues of our day that remain complicated. But for each issue that is...
My First Pesach
I had no time to write an article this week because of Pesach. But B’H, in the nick of time, I came across a journal I wrote when I...
The Taste Of Bitterness: Marror And The Path To Redemption
By Rabbi Benny Berlin
On Pesach night, we are commanded to eat marror. The Haggadah tells us clearly why—because the Egyptians embittered the lives of our ancestors with backbreaking labor,...
In A Hurry To Leave
One of the obligations the Haggadah requires of us is to view ourselves as if we had been freed from the Egyptian bondage. Maimonides (the Rambam) cites this as...
Parashas Tzav: Redeeming!
In a small village near the town of Kolbisov there lived a simple Jew who made his living from the kretchma, the little inn that he rented from the...
New Book From Touro University Press Tells Daily Story Of Hamas War Against Israel
In the wake of the tragic events of October 7 and the war that followed, Touro University Press has published Awakening to Radical Islamist Evil: The Hamas War Against...
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