The Bridge Turkish & Mediterranean Grill of Highland Park welcomes members of the community to a late summer series of short dinnertime inspirational talks, to
This past Shabbat, the Ohr Saadya community began the project of making up the parshiyot that were missed from the weekly kriyat haTorah while shuls
I was recently listening to a shiur by noted speaker, Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein, founder of Ohr Na’ava. When he was young, his father was a
Parshat Re’eh Throughout the seven haftarot of consolation that follow Tish’a B’Av, the navi Yeshayahu presents us with descriptions of the final redemption and return
Unkelos translates the word re’eh as chazi, reminding one of the word chazon, the vision of Yeshayahu. When I think of vision, I think of
“See, this day I set before you blessing and curse; The blessing that you will hear… and the curse, if you will not hear…” The
Parshat Re’eh reviews Jewish dietary laws, supplying a sweeping list of banned foods. It catalogues kosher and non-kosher animals, bans the drinking of blood, mentions
We read in Parsha Re’eh that one should not make any cuttings in one’s skin for the dead (14:1). Apparently, this was a mourning custom
Roni had an important meeting to attend at 9:00 in the morning in Manhattan. He lived about an hour away so he made sure to
There is a root in Biblical Hebrew גדד. It often appears in the “hitpael” form and means “cut,” i.e., “cut oneself” (self-mutilation). The “hitpael” form
This article is a short version of an article I wrote in 1994 and have revised several times since then. At the time I was
Reviewing: “Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas,” by Yaacob Dweck. Princeton University Press. 2019. English. Hardcover. 504 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0691183572. Visit a Satmar community, and
