Stubborn. Wooden-headed. Inflexible. Intransigent. These are the words that come to mind when reflecting on the folly of the Pharaohs...
Read MoreBy Rabbi Leo Dee I keep thinking about Parashat Vaeira as I read the headlines. Vaeira is the moment when G-d tells Moses: “You’re not...
Read MoreBy Chaim Gold HaRav Shimon Galei delivering Divrei Hisorerus at the event Partial view of the participants at the Far...
Read MoreBy Rabbi Efrem Goldberg On Sunday night in Pittsburgh, the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers’ seasons came down to one...
Read MoreBy Sivan Rahav Meir Last week, Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg and Dr. Abed Halaila held a joint press conference that was...
Read MoreBnei Yisrael were about to enter Eretz Yisrael. They had high hopes, but naturally, they had great fears as well. Would they...
Read MoreChana Laya and Rabbi Chaim on bumper boats Chavie and Rabbi Chaim at the Palm Canyon Trail In case you...
Read MoreBy R’ Mordechai Young A friend of mine from elementary school named Rafi came from a traditional, but non-observant family....
Read MoreWhen Rav Yehuda Zev Segal, zt’l, the Manchester Rosh Yeshivah, was visiting Vienna on matters related to the Jewish community, he...
Read MoreThe liberation from Mitzrayim was a multilayered event. It transformed Jewish history by freeing us from more than two centuries of slavery...
Read MoreRabbi Dovid Pardo was born in Venice in 1718 to a prominent rabbinic family. Sadly, his parents passed away when...
Read MoreoxI had the occasion to travel through a city which I had not visited for years. Once long ago, I...
Read MoreAmud HaYomi Set to Complete Masechta Pesachim Before Pesach By Chaim Gold HaRav Dovid Cohen addressing the Amud HaYomi Siyum...
Read MorePart 2: How the Scientific Discovery of Fine-tuning Solved the Great Mystery By Rabbi Elie Feder, PhD, and Rabbi Aaron...
Read MoreBy Sivan Rahav Meir Last week, I spoke with Phil Rosen, chair of World Jewish Congress (American division) and a...
Read MoreBy Rabbi Efrem Goldberg My children know one of my little pet peeves is not a big offence, not something...
Read MoreBy Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon At the end of Parashat Vayechi—which of course is also the end of Sefer Bereishit—Yosef tells his brothers that...
Read MoreRabbi Schonfeld (far right), mesader kiddushin at my marriage to Drora Aharoni, December 25, 1988, at the JCC of West...
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