Jerusalem—AMIT, Israel’s premier educational network, has announced that 1,500 students from its 110 schools in 29 cities throughout the country will take part in FIRST
In May 1961, President Kennedy announced an initiative to safely land an American on the moon before the end of the decade, and before the
I confess I spent almost the whole day (definitely more than half) lying on the couch watching TV. I love the BBC stuff (think Downton
I have a confession to make: I pick up hitchhikers. I know what that sounds like. I’ve lived most of my life in a world
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
Shemot: 10: 3, 12: 17 Whenever the family flew to Miami to visit Savta and Grandpops over the winter break from school, it was always
Editor’s Note: This week we welcome the first in what we know will be a wonderful series of chinuch articles, contributed by the heads of
Russia is not an easy place for a Jew to live. So when a leading Russian news show asked a leading Russian synagogue for permission
The life of Abraham Ibn Ezra can be divided into two periods. The first was a stable one. According to the most recent scholarship, he
Parshat Bo The navi Yirmiyahu was an older contemporary of the navi Yechezkel. Although the time of their activities overlap, Yirmiyahu prophesied in Yerushalayim to
A few years ago I found myself davening at a busy shteibel and noticed what seemed to be a unique door that was a bit
In recent years, numerous articles and lectures have been given regarding the future of Sephardi Judaism. As a Sephardi rabbi, I was delighted. However, to
