Tisha B’Av, the most tragic day in the Jewish calendar, is a day full of sadness. We observe the strictest traditions of personal and collective
Over Kashrut of Contemporary Toothpaste May this special post be an ilui neshama (merit for the soul) of my dear mother, Mrs. Joan Maybruch, Yocheved
Parshat Devarim “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is common wisdom, but the Torah, in this week’s parsha, tells us how to properly judge.
God writes in His holy Torah, “See I have placed before you today, the life and the good, the death and the evil, good and
When Kibbutz Lavi’s furniture company agreed to take on restoration work on a synagogue in Germany, what they didn’t know was that their own kibbutz
“Other than the Creator, there is nothing.”— Yehoshua Bin Nun, Aleinu Sure, you are huge. I mean, you are 10 billion times larger than a
“We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, but Hashem our God took us out from there with a strong hand and outstretched arm. And if
Who would you make “the face of the Jewish people”? Would it be Yaakov Avinu, whose face was engraved on the Throne of Glory? Would
When Hashem told Moshe to collect a machatzit hashekel (a certain coin) from every Jew over the age of 20, He commanded: “Zeh yitnu”—This is
Last week I had quite an unusual experience, which fortunately I was able to laugh about. The alternative would have been to cry, and I
I have a question that you may not have thought of because it appears simple, but as you’ll see the question is more difficult than
As my wife and I passed by the ladies’ shoe department in a large department store, we saw hundreds of pairs of beautifully displayed expensive
