It will be a great day… in fact, Tu B’Av was always a great day for shidduchim…for thousands of years. Thousands of Jews from across

Anyone who thinks Jewish Federation activities are rote, bureaucratic or boring has clearly never met the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey,

Keter Torah Will Host Rabbi Dr. J.J. Schacter Starting at 9:15 a.m. The opening shiur will be “Preparing for Tisha B’Av in 2017.” This program

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 Sanhedrin 6

An important lesson for Tisha b’Av may be gleaned from Hacham Ovadia Yosef’s approach to the issue of chalak, or glatt kosher meat. On the

I had always wondered what view of dreams was reflected in biblical Hebrew. My initial thought was that Ḥ-L-M might have derived from Ḥ-L-H (sick).

Arachim was running one of its powerful seminars in Eretz Yisrael, exposing the attendees to the beauty of Torah and mitzvos. The crescendo of this

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Part 6 (Continued from last week) Train to Kazakhstan Meantime, we had written to my mother’s brothers in Moscow and finally got a reply from

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