Last week my wife woke me up at 1:30 a.m., saying “Get up quickly! Someone is knocking on the front door!” I was half asleep
Administration of the death penalty by beit din accomplished two very different goals: It served in a punitive capacity to punish the criminal and it
Parshat Ki Teitzei This week’s prophetic selection, the third and fifth in the series of seven haftarot of consolation, is taken from the 54th and
Numerous times over the past year we have been asked when we will no longer be “New in the Neighborhood.” We have thought of what
So many times we see a friend after a painful experience and the person somehow seems different. People might say, “that experience really changed them.”
When Dmitry Shimelfarb was an eighth grader in Minsk, Belarus, he got the shock of his young life. He took the country’s standard psychological test
(Courtesy of the Koby Mandell Foundation) Comedy for Koby, a highly popular stand-up comedy tour that has been entertaining Israeli-based audiences for over a decade,
(Courtesy of ALEH) In July, the Gedera-based special education school of ALEH (www.ALEH.org), Israel’s network of care for children with severe complex disabilities, transformed its
(Courtesy of YTH) Interview with Rabbi Yechiel Ben-Ari, menahel of Yeshiva Toras Halacha in KGH: 1. Welcome, Rabbi Ben-Ari. Please tell us a little about
School is starting. New faces, new school supplies and hopefully some new ideas. That is not to say that all old ideas need to be
Part VI This anemic response to the plight of European Jewry elicited criticism. If the partners to this union were indeed bound by a “common
If we were all to practice what we preached, we could accomplish true greatness. One individual who has truly lived a life based on his
