While we have lived through multiple pandemics (SARS, Ebola, AIDS to name a few), most of us have not experienced it as personally and directly
Learning Torah is supposed to be enjoyable but it is more than that. We have the opportunity to rethink our attitudes to learning Torah as
Highlighting: “Rakafot Aharon, Volume 4,” by Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff, edited by Rabbi Dr. Yaakov S. Weinstein, published by Shvut Ami, 344 pages, 2019. In
Anyone reading this probably knows someone gay. The explicit biblical prohibition against homosexual activity and the associated rabbinic prohibitions, including the rabbinic condemnation of gay
Reviewing: “Moreh Nevuchim” (all three parts), edited by Mordecai Plaut. Feldheim, Publishers. 2019. Hebrew. Hardcover. ISBN-13: 978-1680251005. 568 pages. “Moreh Ha-Nevuchim part 1,” edited by
I. Average Often, we are rightly told to strive for greatness. But that doesn’t mean we have to act like we are better than everyone
Rav Itzeleh (Yitzchak) Volozhiner succeeded his father as rosh yeshiva of the premier yeshiva in Europe. A Torah scholar and famous orator, he also served
Reviewing “Tzadka Mimeni: The Jewish Ethic of Personal Responsibility,” by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky. Gefen Books. 2018. 320 pages. ISBN-13: 978-9652296498. The order of the nesi’im,
Reviewing: “Siddur Avodat HaLev,” by Rabbinical Council of America (Rabbi Basil Herring, editor). Koren Publishers Jerusalem. 2018. Hebrew/English edition. Hardcover. 1346 pages. ISBN-13: 978-9653019362. The
Who wrote Kohelet, the biblical book of Ecclesiastes? The traditional answer to the question of Kohelet’s authorship is Shlomo HaMelech, King Solomon, who according to
Reviewing “Depths of Yonah: Unleashing the Power of Your Yom Kippur” by Rabbi Chaim Jachter and Binyomin Jachter. 182 pages, ISBN: 9780464990123, 2018. The biblical
I. What a Rabbi Does Most of us have been to enough Jewish weddings that we know how they work. We can easily officiate. Even
