We have endured a year of hardship that has tested our emunah. The savage slaughter of our people and the painful aftermath have left us

Megillah Pesukim Read Aloud Hands down, this is my favorite Sephardic Purim practice. But first, a little background… As is well known, the Rama (Orach

King Louis XIV once had a fascinating conversation with the renowned 17th-century Roman Catholic philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. The king, intrigued, asked Pascal to

Last year my rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Elefant, put together a Shabbos reunion for his married talmidim. Rabbi Zevi Seidenfeld, my friend who helped organize the

My dear friend and teacher, Rav Dovid’l Weinberg of Yerushalayim Ir haKodesh related a maaseh about Reb Shalom Rokeach, Der Ershter Rov—the First Rebbe of

Parshat Yitro “Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh Hashem tzavakot … ” What a powerful declaration! What a glorious revelation! And what a remarkable introduction to Yishayahu’s divine

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: I was at an event on Chanukah at which someone lit candles and sang the

Not many parshiyot are named after individuals. What was so unique about Yitro that he merited to have a parasha referred to by his name?

There is absolutely nothing important enough to make us overlook the pain of others. Our parsha presents the most important and transformative event in human

We’re told Yitro heard all God did for Moshe and for His people, how He took them out from Egypt in a way that was

The beginning of our parsha lists Moshe Rabbeinu’s two sons, Gershom and Eliezer, and also explains why those names were chosen. The name Gershom was

Even the Washington sniper would likely be acquitted in a court of law bound by the Jewish laws of criminal evidence. There were no witnesses