Verse 10: “eshet chayil mi yimtza?” These four words imply that it is hard to find a woman of valor. Yet at verse 29 we
Part II I have previously addressed the history of the “Baruch She-petarani” blessing, and the scant knowledge we have of bar mitzvahs until the time
I am largely basing this column on Bar Mitzvah: A History, by Michael Hilton (2014). In Gen. Rabbah 63:10, there is the following passage: “Rabbi
The above blessing is not in the Talmud or the Geonim. When did the practice of reciting it in shul when one’s son is age
There is a well-known story in Mishnah Taanit 3:8: “[The people] said to Choni Ha-Me’agel: Pray that rain should fall. He said to them: Go
I am going to share some insights from the 2014 book by Daniel Gordis: “Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul.” As we all know,
fEveryone agrees that the root עגל fundamentally means “round” in Tanach. (See, e.g., “agol” at I Kings 7:23.) But an issue in this root is
Aura Herzog, the mother of Israel’s President Isaac Herzog and the wife of Israel’s sixth president, Chaim Herzog, died on Jan. 10, 2022, two weeks
Amos Oz (1939-2018) was a famous secular Israeli writer. He was the author of 40 books and was a winner of the Israel Prize. I
Ordinarily, the issues in an injury case in New York State are straightforward: 1) negligence of the party being sued, 2) what percentage of fault
Most of this column is based on Allis and Ronald Radosh, “A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel.” Harry Truman had
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
