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Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff

ALIYAH

What Every Oleh Should Know

Sitting in your suburban home or cooperative apartment, surrounded by all that is currently so familiar, you are probably apprehensively wondering, “How do we begin?”

PEOPLE

The Rebbe and the Rav

There was a knock on the door when I was visiting my rebbe, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, to express my condolences upon the loss of his mother. It was 1967. It…

BOOKS

Rabbi Meir Kahane: His Life and Thought

Ours was a generation that grew up in the shadow of the crematoria and the glow of the Israeli flag. While I was American born, there were numerous survivors among…

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Sometime in the latter part of the 19th century, Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav and great-grandfather of the…

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$1.1 Million Gift Dedicated to New Home for Sderot’s Youth

Upon visiting Sderot in 2019 and learning about the myriad physical and emotional challenges affecting the city’s youth as a…

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Man of G-d: Remembering Rabbi Moshe Hauer

Rabbi Hauer used this mindset and framework to believe in everyone’s potential, even those whom others didn’t believe in—or those who didn’t believe in…

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