Hundreds of people crowded into Yeshiva Ohr Simcha on Forest Avenue in Englewood to attend Sunday’s levaya of Rabbi Yosef Strassfeld, z”l, who was known

  This week we learned Bava Metzia 104. Here are some highlights. Bava Metzia 104: If one of the tenants did not water the garden

For those residing in the tenement apartments of New York City in the early 1900s, “waiting for the other shoe to drop” was a relatively

Bereishit: 49:19-21 They had been waiting outside the classroom for over 20 minutes. They could see the parents who were huddled with Rabbi Jacobs by

Part I It is a typical question faced by observant Jews—has the waiting period between meat and milk elapsed? Not surprisingly, poskim have devoted considerable

When I was a graduate student at Fordham University working toward my master’s in social work, a fellow student offered me a piece of advice:

Part: III Why Johnny Doesn’t Like Talmud, and What Can Be Done This is the third part of a three-part series. We focused in Part

The first section of the second chapter in Melachim I, the haftarah selection for today, is made up of the final message given by David

Music is an integral part of a young person’s life. Most students in Jewish day schools will sing a Jewish song in tefillah at least

It’s almost January 16, and do you know what day that is? That’s right: It’s National Nothing Day. Don’t pretend. You did not know that.

There are so many aspects of making a simcha. Folks try their best in picking a menu, a band, what they say in their speeches.

Unless one is an avid skier, we find that people are very unhappy when those white flakes begin to descend upon us. Complaints are vociferous.