We all value and protect our lives. The Torah reinforces this by commanding us to not only avoid endangering our...
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Read MoreWalking back from shul after Shabbos, one of my congregants lamented that the Pesach tour he had booked in Israel...
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Read MoreWhen I played little league baseball, we were in a competitive league that engaged in stealing bases. During one game,...
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Read MoreMusical inspiration by Naftali Kempeh “Should I tell you a bit more about my first trip to Panama twenty-five years...
Read MoreBy Martin Bodek (Author), Sari Kopitnikoff (Illustrator) Reviewed by Michele Justic The bright yellow pick-me-up for your Seder has arrived...
Read MoreBy Rabbi Efrem Goldberg In the introduction to a recent episode of “Behind the Bima,” Yocheved and I had a...
Read MoreRabbi Yitzchak Biton and his wife Tamar lost three of their children in last week’s missile strike in Beit Shemesh:...
Read MoreBorn in Castile, Spain in 1452, Rabbi Avraham (ben Shmuel) Zacuto studied under the preeminent Spanish Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yitzchak Abuhav (author of Menoras...
Read MoreBy Moshe Gerstley Hands trembling, windows shaking, the ground quaking, sirens blaring. This is the second time Israel has come...
Read MoreBy R’ Mordechai Young In yeshiva, a friend of mine named Yehuda was wearing his friend’s yarmulke. It had his friend’s...
Read MoreRabbi Chaim, Menny, and Rabbi Mendel Backman at the Megillah reading after the fast Purim in Bozeman was epic. It...
Read MoreThe great and ambitious project of building a house in which Hashem’s presence would dwell was about to begin. The...
Read MoreThough most of us are familiar with and understand the importance of loving others, developing these feelings is challenging. When...
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