Mordecai Paldiel was born Markus Wajsfeld on March 10, 1937, in Antwerp, Belgium, as one of five children, into the Chasidic family of Szlomo Wajsfeld,

New York—In 1941, hundreds of students from European yeshivas traveled to the Far East to escape Nazi persecution. Before reaching Shanghai, they temporarily settled in

One of the great questions confronted by thoughtful Jews is the role of Hashem in the Holocaust. While many thinkers address this issue, a most

soften breakups by using the phrase “It’s really not you; it’s me.” Well, in this case, it is definitely you, Facebook, definitely you. Perhaps we

The JCC Thurnauer School of Music is celebrating 33 years of magnificent music making on Wednesday, May 10, 7-8:30 p.m., at the Bergen Performing Arts

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 Bava

So, you say you bought five pounds of matzah and only needed two? You picked up five boxes of hand shmurah and only used three

Although there are many theories, no one knows when and why the practice of the Haftarah was instituted. The ArtScroll Siddur includes the following statement:

Alan Dershowitz, a 1955 graduate of Yeshiva University High School, and Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik will discuss “Anti-Zionism in the Academy: Israel and

The matzahs are eaten, the chametz is back. Pesach is now “back on the shelf” until next year. Our current focus is the Pesach sequel:

When I was a freshman in MTA I had an experience one morning that impacted not only that day, but weeks, months and years to

The story of the death of Aharon’s two sons during the joyous celebration of the Chanukat HaMishkan, of which we read in this week’s parsha,