A gentleman recently shared a few words with me. He asked me what emet means. He then went into a short story about how one

Most people are unaware that the founder of Klein’s Ice Cream, Rabbi Efraim Klein, a”h, was a Holocaust survivor who had lost his whole family

“Isaac loved Esav…but Rebecca loved Jacob.” (Genesis 25:28) It’s not difficult to understand why Rebecca loved Jacob. He was a parent’s dream child, studious and

The stories of Bereishit chronicle Jewish selection and the birth of our historical mission. Facing a violent world of moral degeneracy and religious chaos, Hashem

Although Parshat Chayei Sarah seems straightforward, questions abound. Why is the narrative of Sarah’s burial appended to the story of finding a wife for Yitzchak?

There is performing chesed (kindness) and then there is performing extraordinary chesed. The following story is told by Rabbi Yoel Gold about a family in

Perhaps one of the greatest debates since we were thrown unceremoniously out of Eretz Yisrael is about a part of the Torah that seemingly only

They aren’t Jewish and they aren’t Christian, but they seem to live a sorta-Hebraic life, incorporating many of the beliefs and rituals of Orthodox Judaism

The Torah records for us the years of the life of our mother Sarah. Instead of merely stating that she lived 127 years long, it

Why is this week’s parsha called the life of Sarah when it is really more about her death? What happens after we die? Why is

Avraham has spent his entire career identifying the one God of this diverse universe. He didn’t just detect a Creator through the beauty of nature

This week is the second wedding anniversary of my older brother Binyamin and his wife, Sarah Miriam. They were older singles and the joy at