Women’s Initiative for Jewish Studies (WIJS) at Young Israel of New Rochelle is proud to present Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal on Wednesday, Oct. 26, at
(Courtesy of TCS NYC Marathon) For the 38th year, the TCS New York City Marathon on Nov. 6 will feature morning services at the Fort
If leadership is the solution, what is the problem? On this, the Torah could not be more specific. The problem is a failure of responsibility.
The Problem I was shocked to hear of the following situation: A rabbinic colleague shared a dilemma faced by a young congregant. The congregant is
Scientific revolutions often lead to cultural upheaval. Our current information revolution has altered almost every aspect of human experience, and it will take decades to
A heretic once approached Rav Elchonon Wasserman to challenge him on the Torah’s authenticity. The heretic said, “Your Torah has a rule that we follow
”רַבִּי חֲנִינָא בֶן תְּרַדְיוֹן אוֹמֵר, שְׁנַיִם שֶׁיּוֹשְׁבִין וְאֵין בֵּינֵיהֶן דִּבְרֵי תוֹרָה, הֲרֵי זֶה מוֹשַׁב לֵצִים, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (תהלים א) וּבְמוֹשַׁב לֵצִים לֹא יָשָׁב. אֲבָל שְׁנַיִם שֶׁיּוֹשְׁבִין
Parshat Bereishit bursts with colorful narratives and fantastic scenes such as Creation, Gan Eden, the eitz hadaat, and Kayin and Hevel, all of which portray
Parshat Bereishit As we begin the Torah reading cycle once more, we also start a new haftarah cycle; “new,” because, for the last three months
Rav Nosson Zvi Finkel, zt”l, the Alter of Slabodka, was an educational pioneer and the primary figure responsible for implementing the mussar revolution in the
We are all familiar with the basic narrative at the beginning of parshat Bereishit—God created the world in six days and, on the seventh day,
“A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.” This quote, attributed to Samuel Goldwyn, reflects the difficulty of enforcing verbal agreements. In Halacha,
