Rav Mordechai Gifter worked very hard to remember the Torah he learned. As he aged, he was stricken with an illness affecting his memory. This

Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, the chief rabbi of Yerushalayim, and Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook, the chief rabbi of Eretz Yisrael in the early 1900s, embodied

A close friend of mine is the head of an out-of-town yeshiva high school. One day, one of the parents sponsored a “tzitzis project” so

Avi was sitting in a Jerusalem restaurant with a group of Israelis who had recently committed to keeping Torah and mitzvos. The waiter brought watermelon

Early in our marriage, my wife and I lived in Eretz Yisroel in the neighborhood of Maalot Dafna, with twin girls of 18 months. The

Many times when I drive from a meeting or an errand and head for a quick stop at the grocery store, I find myself pulling

Sir Moses and Lady Judith Montefiore went on their first long journey to Eretz Yisrael in 1827. On the way from Malta to Alexandria, Egypt,

This dvar Torah is dedicated l’ilui nishmas my grandmother, Mrs. Hansi Bodenheim, Genendal bas Shmuel, a”h, who just passed away on the 24th of Nisan.

I took my children to an indoor video game arcade on a rainy day of Chol Hamoed. Most of the people there were children and

Before one Pesach during World War II, the Bluzhever Rebbe was in a concentration camp and managed to salvage some flour to covertly bake a

The Shabbos before Pesach is called Shabbos Hagadol, the great or large Shabbos. How is this Shabbos different from every other Shabbos? At a bris,