Religion
In whatever manner one understands the saying about walking four amot in Israel, it is clear that Chazal placed great…
Simchas Torah would have to pass us by; we were not emotionally ready for the joy, the songs, the ecstatic…
Her parents didn’t have a wide circle of friends. Whom would they invite to the levayah?
How does Rosh Hashanah connect to the Exodus?
Sukkot, in our liturgy, is deisgnated as “Zman Simchatenu”-the time of our rejoicing. Yet, the Torah requires that we be…
Combatting sinat chinam by highlighting acts of kindness.
True teshuvah is not just turning away from sin, but becoming the kind of person for whom that sin is…
The shofar-blast of Rosh Hashanah reverberates back to our earliest Jewish past and ahead to our repentance in the End…
Guilt is an emotional pain which is as essential to life and health as physical pain.
Misconception: In the Biblical phrase, which praises the Land of Israel, “Eretz zavat chalav udevash, a land flowing with milk…
Rabbi Pinchas Stopler recounts the beginnings of NCSY in the 1960's, a time when all the "experts" predicted the project…
