At the end of Parashat Chukat, the Jews fought their inaugural battles in the long war to conquer the Holy Land....
Read MoreThe Suvalker Rov, Rav Dovid Lifshitz, zt’l, was the intellectual and spiritual scion of Lithuanian Torah greatness. As one of the...
Read More“Common Ground, authored by Rabbi Arieh Friedner, is a transformative guide to unlocking the secret to Jewish unity. Drawing from...
Read MoreoldBy Rabbi Efrem Goldberg Israelis, Jews, and decent people around the world breathed a sigh of relief and were filled...
Read MoreIt was 1946 and R’ Chaim Tzvi Schwartz, a young survivor and Munkatcher chassid who had lost his family in the war,...
Read MoreRabbi Chaim with Montana Atty. Gen. Austin Knudsen, MHP Col. Kurt Sager, and Bozeman PD Capt. Joe Swanson t happened. This...
Read MoreKorach presented an internal Jewish conflict that had to be decisively addressed, and it was. After Korach instigated a rebellion,...
Read MoreA most fascinating sefer entitled Tokef HaTalmud (The Power of the Talmud) was published in 1849 in Ofen (Buda), Hungary. The sefer was written in response...
Read MoreWhen the Shunamite woman (Melachim II, 4:9) encountered the prophet Elisha, she remarked to her husband that she had seen a...
Read MoreThe past week has been both exhilarating and dizzying. Each day brings a surge of euphoria. With Hashem’s help, the...
Read MoreIn Part I of this essay, we explored the words tzitzit and gedilim, offering a possible way of understanding the nuanced difference between...
Read MoreBy Rabbi Efrem Goldberg Several times over the last few days, I was talking to someone in Israel—my daughter, sister,...
Read MoreBy Sivan Rahav Meir I’m happy to share a small moment of Jewish civilian heroism—one of so many during these...
Read MoreBy Toby Klein Greenwald Courtesy of Beit Issie Shapiro Even before Israel’s miraculous attacks on Iran, parents of children with...
Read MoreBy Yochanan Gordon Every Jew is a spiritual force of cosmic proportions. Our enemies know it; do we? There are...
Read MoreDuring these very difficult days, not only do others challenge our sacred and inherent connection to the holy land of Eretz Yisrael,...
Read MoreWe often think of faith in Hashem as something instinctive—either we have it or we don’t. But emunahisn’t just a feeling...
Read MoreRosh yeshivat Mercaz HaRav in Yerushalayim, Rav Tzvi Yehudah HaKohen Kook, was one of the most influential leaders in modern Jewish history....
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