The year was 1946. Rabbi Isaac HaLevi Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Eretz Yisrael, came to visit Chicago. A huge entourage greeted the Chief Rabbi at
In the late 1940s, Rav Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman—the Ponevezher Rav—was raising money to purchase plots of land to build a yeshiva in Bnei Brak, which
I was playing baseball as a kid, covering left field, when the batter hit the ball…hard! I moved in to catch it, but realized I
Every teenager looks forward to the day they get their driver’s license. Freedom! Yet, the push for self-driving cars remains strong. Maybe we won’t need
Last Shabbos was the first yahrzeit of a truly special young man, Binyamin Yisrael Gonsher, who passed away at the young age of 14 due
As one reads through the parshiyos in Sefer Bamidbar, one could get overwhelmed by the amount of complaints, strife, discord, disunity, argumentative behavior, blasphemy and
There are lots of signs of summer. School and yeshiva end and camp begins. Tests and classrooms take a backseat to the relaxing outdoors. Weddings
Last year, I received an invitation to the wedding of Shmaryahu Shulman to Mika BenArbon. Shmaryahu had learned in my shiur two years before, for
I recently attended a wedding in which the chosson had just finished serving five years in the Marine Corps. There were multiple young men dressed
The city of Petra in Jordan is listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. In my years learning in Eretz Yisrael, during
We just had a Shabbos guest who told us about her trip to Eretz Yisrael a few years ago. Security personnel at Ben Gurion Airport
On June 12 there will be a major event in the CURE Stadium in Trenton, New Jersey, in honor of Adirei HaTorah—the Warriors of Torah.
