This past Sunday, tens of thousands of participants in Dirshu’s learning programs embarked on a new journey as they embraced Dirshu’s newest program, titled “Kinyan

PART 1: Married Couple With Young Child—West Coast Trip Winter break is always a challenging time of year to get hold of affordable airfare and

Part II With the success of my original recounting of Mr. Twain’s comments on various topics pertaining to current events, he recently provided me with

I have no favorite children. I love each of them equally and in abundance. Though I always thought I would have at least four children,

The election of Donald J. Trump has thrust a number of self-righteous Jews on the left into a state of apoplexy. They lash out at

In my first article for The Jewish Link, “From the Desk of a 17-Year-Old Yeshiva Applicant” (http://jewishlinknj.com/features/11095-from-the-desk-of-a-17-year-old-yeshiva-applicant), I shared a personal epiphany: The tendency of

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 Batra

Shemot:15:22-27, 16:1-36, 17:1-7 Eli Ashkeloni would have been lying if he said he was happy to see Mrs. Schwartz’s Buick LeSabre pull into his service

An Ashkenazic rabbinic colleague of mine told his students that Sephardic Jews do not recite the bracha of HaNoten La’yaef Koach (blessing Hashem for giving

The root shin-nun-heh has two meanings in Tanach. On the one hand, it means “to repeat.” (Of course, the word sheni, second, comes from this

In Masechet Rosh Hashanah, Tu B’Shevat marks the beginning of the year for trees, assigning a starting point along a cycle of the natural world.

Upon reading this morning’s haftarah, one finds the connection to our parsha quite obvious. Just as the Torah reading included the Israelites’ great song of