Arachim was running one of its powerful seminars in Eretz Yisrael, exposing the attendees to the beauty of Torah and mitzvos. The crescendo of this
Over Kashrut of Contemporary Toothpaste May this special post be an ilui neshama (merit for the soul) of my dear mother, Mrs. Joan Maybruch, Yocheved
Parshat Devarim “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is common wisdom, but the Torah, in this week’s parsha, tells us how to properly judge.
Parshat Devarim Shabbat Chazon It is difficult for one to analyze this week’s haftarah in a detached, unemotional fashion. The passionate cry of the navi
Not every bar mitzvah speech is so memorable that you remember it in detail years later, but when we hear something that speaks to us,
Reviewing: “Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen: Between War and Peace,” by Professor Yechiel Frish and Rabbi Yedidya HaCohen (Irene Lancaster, translator). Urim Publications. Hardcover, 334 pages.
It was the words I’d been waiting to hear for several long months of navigating my kitchen with what looked like contractor dust everywhere, but
Part 6 (Continued from last week) Train to Kazakhstan Meantime, we had written to my mother’s brothers in Moscow and finally got a reply from
Our daughter Rena is 22 years old. She has not expressed to us the least bit of interest in dating. In fact, she has explicitly
Dear Shoshy, I just went on my second date with someone, and he told the girl who set us up that he wants to “break
The majority of you reading this were either teenagers, young adults or adults during the ’80s and ’90s. The advice at the time was that
The images of the gruesome attack on the Salomon family in Halamish are difficult for anyone to look at. Once again the heroes of Zaka
