The 1848 (5608-9) cholera epidemic has become famous in Jewish history because it was the moment when the 37-year-old Rav Yisrael Salanter first took on

If you stand on the railroad tracks and see a train coming your way you would probably become anxious and fearful. You would get off

Summer has concluded, schools have “restarted” and the scent of Elul is in the air—punctuated every morning by the blaring shofar and at night by

Meet Elky Ogorek Willner: Bais Yaakov graduate, busy mother of three, senior court attorney to a New York State Supreme Court justice, Criminal Term, and…

The Situation We are living through unprecedented times. While most of us imagined that by the time summer vacation 2020 was finally here, corona would

The opening verse of parshat Shoftim depicts the formation of a national and local judicial system. Judges are commanded to maintain impartiality and render truthful

When I was in 12th grade, I applied to a post-high school yeshiva in Eretz Yisrael. Many of my friends applied to the same place

All the time. OK, maybe not all time. A Jewish king is required to keep a sefer Torah with him—around the clock, and the Gemara

It is something of a puzzle that although parshat Shoftim precedes parshat Ki Teitzei, the opening words of Ki Teitzei appear in parshat Shoftim. In

(Courtesy of Matok Midvash) In the holy books of the great sages of Israel, we find countless praises for one who immerses in the study

This past Shabbat, the Ohr Saadya community began the project of making up the parshiyot that were missed from the weekly kriyat haTorah while shuls

I was recently listening to a shiur by noted speaker, Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein, founder of Ohr Na’ava. When he was young, his father was a