By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg Have you ever felt like a fraud, that you’re just making things up as you go,...
Read MoreLast week, we began studying Rebbe Yehoshua ben Levi’s teaching that only those involved in Torah study are genuinely free. Rebbe Yehoshua...
Read MoreStatue of Rabbi Yehudah Loew at the New City Hall of Prague – Public Domain. Credit: Public Domain through Wikipedia. Unraveling the Mystery of...
Read MoreIf a coin were to be minted to commemorate Rabbi Berel Wein, zt’l, it would be a version of the Avraham...
Read MoreOur colloquial understanding of a desert is a place of endless sand and scant vegetation. Many of us have imaginal...
Read MoreThe journey of the past two years has been long and arduous. On October 7th, we were instantly thrust into...
Read MoreRav Shlomo Freifeld, zt’l, was a legendary rosh yeshiva, builder of people and Torah, and master educator who was beloved for his simchas ha-chayim, his...
Read MoreBy Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter New York State is in danger of adopting a new “assisted suicide” law unless the...
Read MoreJLIC’s Summer in Jerusalem internship and beit midrash program brought 45 college students to Israel this summer. TJJ participants ran...
Read MoreBy Rabbanit Sally Mayer Parashat Re’eh opens with a call to “see”—to perceive clearly, to pay attention. The very name of the parashah, Re’eh (“See”),...
Read MoreI am in a remote country far from my place of residence. I am struck by how happy the people...
Read MoreRav Zeidel Epstein, zt’l, the sagacious mashgiach ruchani of Torah Ohr in Yerushalayim, was respected for his wisdom and beloved for his stellar middos tovos. Having...
Read MoreTorah learning is not just a central mitzvah. It is also the only way to achieve true freedom. Rebbe Yehoshua ben Levi derived...
Read MoreBy Sivan Rahav Meir It’s not clear whether she’s the oldest Jewish woman in the world, but her grandchildren say...
Read MoreRabbi Chaim and Chavie Bruk with Ambassador Dr. Yechiel Leiter We have just wrapped up a bustling Shabbos Nachamu in Bozeman and...
Read MoreBy Rabbi Danny Mirvis “The commandment that I command you (singular) today, you (plural) shall keep to perform, so that...
Read MoreThere is a word that is found in the Torah a total of four times, three of them in this...
Read More“The wall was not built for the builders, but for those who would come after, who might never see it...
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