Twice in my life I experienced an earthquake. The first time I was a young boy living in an apartment building in Washington Heights, New

Our sedra is famously known as “Parshat Eretz Yisrael.” While virtually every sedra in the Torah stresses the centrality of Israel, Ekev makes it crystal

Of the many life cycles that we mark, the yahrzeit is probably the one that is most filled with bittersweet emotions. “Yahrzeit” is a Yiddish

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A standing-room-only crowd of community members, congregational rabbis and elected officials gathered in the large catering hall at Congregation Ohr Torah of Edison on July

(Sponsored Content) History was made last week with the celebration of a hachnosas sefer Torah in Woodbourne. This coming Sunday there will be yet another

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Where would the desert generation be without the heroic prayers of Moshe? Twice the young nation rebelled, first betraying their vows at Sinai, and subsequently

There is a program called “V’haarev na” created by Rabbi Dovid Newman that has brought the joy of Gemara learning to thousands of teenagers. The

This week’s haftarah, opening with “Nachamu, nachamu ami—Be comforted, be comforted, my nation” (Yishayahu 40:1), always falls on the Shabbat following Tisha B’Av. It marks

Again, and again, and again. 515 times! Hashem decreed that Moshe wasn’t to enter Eretz Yisrael, but Moshe wasn’t deterred from continuously beseeching Hashem to

Sukkah 10-11b The equivalent of the OU kashrut certification in England is the certification of the London Beit Din. There is also a competing kashrut