Religion

CHURBAN

What’s the Truth about . . . the Cause of the Destruction of the Beit Hamikdash?

What really caused the destruction of the Second Beit Hamikdash?

RELIGION

Sense and Sensibilities: Women and Talmud Torah

There is a quiet revolution taking place today in classrooms and halls of study, in synagogues and homes, in Israel,…

CHURBAN

Kinot: The Language of Loss

My birthday is on Purim. But my destiny seems to be linked with Tishah B’Av. For more than twenty years…

JEWISH LAW

Does G-d Have a Sense of Humor?

Is there a special room within our philosophical house for the comedic arts?

INSPIRATION

Up Close with Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich

Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich’s tenacious struggle to keep Torah in Communist Russia is documented in his book Unbroken Spirit: A Heroic…

INSPIRATION

What Does God Want of Me Now? Rabbi Yehuda Simes’ Courageous Journey

On the night of June 20th, 2010, a horrific car accident left Rabbi Yehuda Simes paralyzed from the neck down.…

INSPIRATION

A Synagogue Full of Prayers

Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev, famed defender of the Jewish people, was visiting a town. Approaching the community’s synagogue for…

JEWISH LAW

Rav Elyashiv on Medical Halachah

Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, zt”l, the supreme halachic authority in our generation, rendered halachic decisions on the use of some…

SHAVUOT

Redemption and the Power of Small Things

Three women, all widows, walked hand in hand. Although they were united by the specter of a bleak, shared future,…

SHAVUOT

Linking Ruth to Bereishit

In 1616, Rabbi Joel Sirkes (popularly known as the Bach), a noted rabbinical scholar who authored several works on Jewish…

ISRAEL

Judea and Identity

Almost 2,000 years ago our forebears were uprooted from Judea. Though dispersed and scattered throughout the world, They continuously and…

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