For the last 25 years, the Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society (RCCS) has had one mission: to maximize the recovery of Jewish cancer patients and to
At press time, the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County (RCBC) was preparing a statement regarding the status of two Teaneck restaurants under its supervision, The
The shock is immense. For several weeks and many chapters—the longest prelude in the Torah—we have read of the preparations for the moment at which
Lashon Hara Against the Dead? Sitting around the Shabbat table a few weeks ago, I posed the following question to my family. The story of
Parshat Tazria Shabbat Rosh Chodesh Nisan Shabbat HaChodesh The special maftir reading established by the Tanaim of the Mishnah was meant to remind the nation
“And it was on the eighth day…” So begins our sedra of Shemini. “The eighth day,” explains Rashi, refers to the day after the week-long
The Mishnah (Yevamot 20a) lays out three types of prohibited relations: אִיסּוּר עֶרְוָה, אִיסּוּר מִצְוָה, and אִיסּוּר קְדוּשָּׁה, with distinctions as to whether chalitza is
The most famous episode in this week’s parsha is the mysterious death of Aharon’s sons, Nadav and Avihu. As the Torah text is particularly vague
In memory of Rav Chaim Kanievsky, zt”l. In Parshat Shemini we finally arrive at the moment we have been waiting for. Since Parshat Teruma we
The heilige Ribnitzer Rebbe, Reb Chaim Zanvil Abramowitz, zy”a, was an extraordinary tzadik and a legendary baal avodah whose sacrifice for Yidishkeit and holiness engulfed
It’s often said that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Why is that true? My ninth grade Heichal students (bekius) and I are
In Parshat Shemini at the end of the first aliyah, it says that the korban was done in the proper way that the law commanded.
