As rav of my minyan, I stand at my shtender during the reading of the Torah on Shabbos. This past Shabbos, something the gabbai said upon calling...
Read MoreBy Rabbi Benny Berlin We find ourselves at the beginning of the Three Weeks, a time that calls us to...
Read MoreThe gaon Rav Yaakov Moshe Charlap was a fiery eved Hashem, a brilliant talmid chacham, posek, and Kabbalist. He was the author of numerous volumes of Sefer Mei Marom,...
Read MoreAs human beings we are responsible for more than just our own personal development. We are also tasked with sustaining...
Read MorePart 1 The famous scene of Balaam and his talking donkey serves as our springboard for a discussion about various...
Read MoreThe residents of the Five Towns are already filled with excitement—the Rebbe, shlita, has come again. Upon the Rebbe’s arrival, hundreds...
Read MoreBy Sivan Rahav Meir “A Jew is never stuck.” I was very moved to hear this statement from young American...
Read MoreBy Rabbi Efrem Goldberg Last week, Piers Morgan, whose show has over four million subscribers on YouTube, hosted virulent and...
Read MoreWhether you call it the Daf, a blatt of Gemara, or the Talmudic folio, the ancient pages of the TalmudBavli are the cornerstone of Jewish life....
Read MoreMoshe was prevented from entering Eretz Yisrael because of his actions at the Mei Merivah, the Waters of Strife, but the question of what...
Read MoreI think that with all this competition to have the fanciest chasunah on the block, we should probably do the same thing...
Read MoreFarbrengen in Cedarhurst at the home of Chesky & Naomi Newman Last week I made my way over to the...
Read MoreReligion straddles the line between logic and mystery. We study Hashem’s will and strive to fulfill it, hoping to uncover...
Read MoreAt 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,...
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