There was a chasid who came to visit the Chiddushei HaRim. The chasid entered the room and stood in front of the rebbe and did

A couple of years ago, our good friends Rabbi Avrohom and Ayala Weinrib made a wedding for their daughter in Lakewood. Since we had just

A challenge I have as a parent is when my children do something wrong and I need to punish them, so they won’t do it

One of my daughters went to a sleepaway camp for the first time this summer. The camp’s policy is that the campers can only call

I’ve been doing the bar mitzvah circuit a lot recently, and I noticed that there’s a big difference between the food being served to the

By Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim This week are the yahrzeits of Binyamin Yisrael ben Shlomo HaLevi Gonsher (10 Tammuz) and Shlomo Zalman ben Rabbi Mordechai Yisroel

A married couple with one child came to me recently with a dilemma. As ba’alei teshuvah, they pondered whom they should list as a guardian

When I was in sixth grade, my friend, Meir Tannenbaum, would often share a gematria (the significance of the numerical value of words) or a

Last week was the first yahrzeit of Rabbi Uri Zohar, who had been a major celebrity in Eretz Yisrael as an actor, comedian and film

In summer camp, I loved playing capture the flag. Each team had to hide its flag and protect it from being captured by their opponent.

There was a fellow I’d see occasionally whom I would encourage to learn in our yeshiva. He was always very cordial and polite, but he