Hillside—Not even the steady and bone-chilling winter rain got in the way of hundreds of devoted volunteers who came out to the Community Food Bank
May these words of Torah serve as a merit le’iluy nishmat Menachem Mendel ben Harav Yoel David Balk, a”h. This week we learned Bava Batra
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An Ashkenazic rabbinic colleague of mine told his students that Sephardic Jews do not recite the bracha of HaNoten La’yaef Koach (blessing Hashem for giving
The root shin-nun-heh has two meanings in Tanach. On the one hand, it means “to repeat.” (Of course, the word sheni, second, comes from this
In Masechet Rosh Hashanah, Tu B’Shevat marks the beginning of the year for trees, assigning a starting point along a cycle of the natural world.
Upon reading this morning’s haftarah, one finds the connection to our parsha quite obvious. Just as the Torah reading included the Israelites’ great song of
I will never forget the conversation in the hallway. It came at one of the most traumatic moments of my life. Only a few minutes
RCA and OU In October 2015, the Rabbinical Council of America issued a resolution (that I sponsored), setting that its members may not ordain women
I have a question that you may not have thought of because it appears simple, but as you’ll see the question is more difficult than
The Beipanjiang Bridge, suspended 1,854 feet above the Nizhu river in southwest China, is currently the highest bridge in the world. The $150 million crossing
A recent Letter to the Editor concerning the poor reading ability of students at a particular day school generated quite an online kerfuffle. Let me
