“Search Engine: Finding Meaning in Jewish Texts,” by Rabbi Gil Student. Kodesh Press. Paperback, 398 pages. 2018. ISBN-10: 1947857045. $24.95. Nice guys do not have

My problem with women is that I feel that I always like them more than they like me. I’m a very romantic, devoted kind of

Last week, Avi Shafar, a 40-year-old man from Teaneck, New Jersey, went to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx and donated his kidney to someone he

The Schreck family of Teaneck had their home severely impacted by a house fire in which a neighboring Teaneck couple lost their lives. The Schrecks

May these words of Torah serve as a merit le’iluy nishmat Menachem Mendel ben Harav Yoel David Balk, a”h.   This week we learned Avoda

It is one of the most well-known variations in the text of the Amidah. In the fourth bracha of the Amidah, the prayer for wisdom,

The book of Esther jumps immediately into the reign of Achashverosh, but provides little background. Fortunately, we get some background from the book of Ezra.

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As I was leaving shul one morning recently, a fellow stopped me and asked me the following question: “I’m a BT (Ba’al Teshuva),” he began.

Childhood memories are by far the most vivid. Decades later, they remain fresh in our minds. I can still remember the first time I saw

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