Misconception: It is ideal to hold the lulav (along with the hadasim and aravot) and the etrog together in one hand. Fact: It is preferable…
Fall 2014 (5775)
What’s the Truth about . . . the Arba Minim?
The recession of 2008 may have left thousands of Orthodox Jews out of work, but apparently not out of hope.
Why would the Torah dictate such a challenging set of laws, requiring that landowners relinquish their land and neither plant nor reap for an entire…
By Adina Bar Shalom With Toby Klein Greenwald I first met Rabbanit Adina Bar Shalom, the daughter of Rav Ovadia Yosef, z”l, in the spring…
It is especially vital for the American tourist or student who will be spending the year in Israel learning in yeshivah or seminary to get…
As I write this message at the end of July, our people are mourning the senseless loss of three innocent teenagers kidnapped and murdered by…
Why the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well and booming in the Orthodox community
By Michael Orbach Ten years is a lifetime in college, but Rabbi Aryeh and Sharona Kaplan aren’t going anywhere. The Kaplans, the longest-serving couple at…
A story about Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman, both Nobel Laureates in physics, captures some of the challenge presented by certain kinds of greatness. A…
“Renew our days as of old” Have you ever imagined what Avraham and Sarah or the generation of Joshua that entered the Land of…
