(Courtesy of BCHA) Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy in Stamford (BCHA) is gearing up to celebrate its 69th Annual Celebration Dinner with the spirited theme of Purim.
(Courtesy of Chabad West Orange) Rosh Chodesh Society to Offer Presentation On ‘Finding God in Our World’ Chabad of West Orange Rosh Chodesh Society, a
(Courtesy of Lamdeinu) Lamdeinu is thrilled to announce an exciting lineup of winter and spring classes, offering enriching learning opportunities for all. Classes this semester
The six weeks in January, during which we read the Torah portions recounting our slavery and redemption from Egypt, are known as the period of
Rav Judah Mischel tells the following story about the Lubavitcher Rebbe: In May 1957, the small fledgling community in Kfar Chabad—founded by Russian Lubavitcher immigrants—was
Two Jews in a train station were waiting on the platform for their scheduled journey. A “maskil” stood reading the daily newspaper, while his fellow
It happened in the late 1950s. But first, a brief description of a problem that really has nothing to do with us. It happens to
Ben Zakkai appears in Sanhedrin 40a, but I don’t know who he is. The Mishna states that whoever increases in bedikot—examinations of witnesses about tangential
Nowhere in Tanach is anyone counting the year from creation. What is the origin of this counting method? As further background, if one looks at
Personal integrity is a basic value to which our Sages attached great value, even referring to it as miyesodei hanefesh, a foundation of the soul
Parshat Vaera The navi Yechezkel—whose words we read this week as our haftarah, lived in Babylonia during the years preceding and following churban bayit, the
A few years ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to spend a week in Eretz Yisroel with our bechor, Shalom, in honor of his bar
