A recent Jewish Link article by Rabbi Haim Jachter (No Skipping: ‘Eizehu Mekoman Shel Zevachim!’, May 9, 2024) promoted the daily recitation of the fifth

Alongside the holiness of place and person is the holiness of time, something Parshat Emor charts in its deceptively simple list of festivals and holy

We have watched in horror and dread as rabid mobs have chanted “Death to Jews.” We had presumed that our modern and enlightened culture would

The Torah in parshat Kedoshim and parshat Emor records Hashem’s prohibition for men to destroy their facial hair and round the corners of their head—לֹא

Included in the section of the holidays in Parshas Emor is the Omer offering (Vayikra 23:9-13), followed (23:14) by the prohibition against eating the new

Iyar is the only month where the religious experience today is the opposite of what it was designated to be in Biblical times. Iyar in

Parshat Emor Parshat Emor that we read this week dedicates its first perek (chapter 21) to the laws of kedusha as they apply to the

Legendary scholar, educator, author and historian, Rabbi Berel Wein’s rabbinic career spanned Chicago, Miami and the Orthodox Union, before he founded Congregation Bais Tefillah and

One of the young men from our yeshiva’s Young Professionals’ Initiative just went to Eretz Yisrael to learn in yeshiva. He had been working for

Note to the reader: The following dvar Torah was presented by the author last year at a siyum to mark her becoming a bat mitzvah.

לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: I made pareve cucumber salad in a fleishig eino ben yomo (not used in 24

The year was 1984 and the place was BMG — Beis Midrash Gavoah in Lakewood. A special day of Tefilah was established for Iosif Berenshtein,