On Nov. 5, YINR Women’s League in New Rochelle participated in the world-wide annual Shabbos Project’s Challah Bake. With COVID-19-inspired options for in-person or Zoom,
(Courtesy of Agudath Sholom) Congregation Agudath Sholom in Stamford, Conn., will co-host a series of shiurim titled “Chanukah Torah Across New England.” The series will
It was last year in the week of Parshas Chayei Sarah that my older brother, Binyamin, got married to Sarah Miriam Kaplan. Both had been
It was one of the most critical issues with which I have dealt. It was a case of a woman who had married in a
Avraham’s revolution had begun to gain traction. He traversed the promised land, participating both in wars as well as in diplomacy, all the while disseminating
I recently received a phone call from an out-of-town friend of mine. His young adult daughter had been dating a yeshiva-oriented young man and it
Parshat Chayei Sarah describes the first portion of land any Jew ever owned in Israel: Avraham’s purchase of the Machpeilah cave in Chevron as a
Ephron pulls the chair on Avraham, positing an exorbitant amount of cash for the plot of land Avraham wants to bury Sarah in. Avraham had
Parshat Chayei Sarah The haftarah reading this week is taken from the very first perek of Sefer Melachim and details the final days of David
One of the major events in the history of Russian Jewry was the imposition of military obligations on them by Czar Nicholas the First in
Editor’s note: This dvar torah corresponds to Breishis 47:4, and overlaps and complements לא בחיל ולא בכח from 16 Cheshvan, 5781 (2 November, 2020). We are grateful
Quite frankly, I didn’t think that this was an article for me to write. There were so many community clergy and lay leaders involved in
