Many people have voiced concern about the availability of matzah shmura for this year’s seders due to the current challenging situation. Rav Hershel Schachter recently

Many have recently asked whether we can immerse our keilim in a river. While this might be an option for Ashkenazic Jews in an extreme

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I steer clear of politics. I studiously avoid political discussion both in my role as rabbi of Congregation Shaarei Orah and rebbe at TABC. There

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American football fans are all abuzz about the dramatic transformation made by the San Francisco 49ers. In 2018 they were at best a struggling mediocre

On the way home from Shaarei Orah this past Friday night, I asked my sons to swerve out of range of a motion detector that

Abarbanel’s Question Abarbanel’s question regarding David Hamelech’s instruction to Shlomo Hamelech to kill Yoav ben Teruyah looms large whenever one encounters Melachim I 2. This