The Talmud (Kiddushin 31b) relates that when quoting a father in a Torah discussion, one should not mention his father by name, but rather refer
Between 2003 and 2012 Csanad Szegedi was a leader in the radical far right Jobbik party of the Hungarian Parliament. In June 2011 he revealed
My wife and I traveled to Israel with the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) to give some love and support to our Israeli brothers and
I was recently on the phone with a student, an involved MJE participant, who also happens to be a volunteer firefighter in the New York
In 1924 the Yaboliner Rebbe, Rav Yechezkel Taub led his followers to Palestine where they established Kfar Hasidim. Unfortunately things soon began to go bad:
“The Merchant of Death Is Dead!” This was reportedly the headline in the obituary section of a French newspaper, in 1888, that erroneously eulogized Alfred
The Covid pandemic presented a myriad of growth experiences for people around the world. Overall, it was a challenging and for some tragic period, yet
Back in the 1980s, when El Al was a national airline owned and run by the State of Israel, a great controversy raged over whether
On May 29, 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to climb Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. Since that
We just celebrated Yom Yerushalayim, marking the 56th anniversary of Jerusalem’s reunification. Yom Yerushalayim usually falls around the time we read Parshat Bamidbar which opens
A friend recently shared a picture of a group of Jews being led to the concentration camps and then directly underneath was another picture of
Probably the most often asked question I receive in my outreach work is: “Rabbi: where are the miracles? The Bible is filled with miracles, why
