Becoming Torah
As Torah-observant Jews, do we just do different things? How personally transformative is our faith and practice? Judaism rises and falls on this question. Klal
As Torah-observant Jews, do we just do different things? How personally transformative is our faith and practice? Judaism rises and falls on this question. Klal
Klal Yisrael is rightfully obsessed with the work of chinuch, education. Both Moshe and Avraham are compared to Bilaam, as our Sages likened the quality
Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski made an incalculable contribution to Jewish life, creating communal awareness on issues of addiction, mental health and abuse. He was the
Life can be boring—even mind-numbing—-if we keep doing the same thing day after day. While doing things without thinking may be helpful for multi-tasking, it
A primary role of the Levi’im—the one that we most readily associate with them—is that of musicians, meshorerim, who enhanced the Temple offerings with their
On May 13, 1948, one day before the termination of the British mandate of Palestine, as the last British column was leaving the Old City,
We all put up walls. But there are different kinds of walls. There are walls of distrust that we put up around ourselves as protection
“Our Father, our King! For the sake of our forefathers who trusted in You, and whom You taught statutes of life, so too, be gracious
Following a recent meeting between increasingly concerned Jews and the government agencies charged with protecting them, I approached the senior agent representing the FBI and
Klal Yisrael is being attacked and challenged from all sides. Some threaten us physically, others attack our moral standing, yet others try to block us
The world is not a peaceful place right now. War is raging, political polarization in America is growing, and the divisions in Klal Yisrael that
Sefer Vayikra is when we tend to find creative ways to discuss anything but the parsha. During this period between Purim and Pesach, when the