All are invited to the Union Y this Sunday, December 10, from 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., for Chanukah-Fest. Enjoy shopping, klezmer music, the JEC/RPRY choir, kids’
Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ is pleased to announce that the Tony Award-winning stage and screen actor Ben Platt will be the special guest
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 Shavuot
Bereishit 37:4 Danny Frankel was standing in shul, putting on his tefillin, when he saw someone he thought he knew across the sanctuary. He hoped
An Ashkenazic woman called me recently asking why her recent Sephardic guest requested that her family be served water challot and not egg challah for
Antiochus (=Antiochus IV) acceded to the throne in 175 B.C.E. In the beginning of his reign, a priest named Jason purchased the high priesthood with
Let’s put ourselves in Yosef’s shoes right after he was sold by his own brothers as a slave. Can you imagine the feeling of betrayal
During the past few weeks, I’ve received a plethora of would-be halachos that would apply if secular holidays and their symbols were actual mitzvos. There
Some messages are simply too important to miss. One such message, I believe, emerges from two words in the Talmud’s short discussion of the Chanukah
Parshat Vayeshev The charge of every navi is to bring Hashem’s word to the people. More often than not, the message to be delivered is
In addition to my work at the Young Israel of Memphis, I’m also privileged to teach Torah to a great group of students at Memphis’
Recently walking the aisles in Trader Joe’s we realized that the experience we were having was enhanced by the music that was being played over
