Editor’s Note: Rabbi Jachter presents a chapter from his upcoming book, “Reason to Believe,” in honor of Yom Yerushalayim. Similar to Israel’s remarkable and unanticipated
I. Dueling Mountains and Dueling Rabbis As we approach Shavuot, we can consider how technology has changed our perception of Torah expertise. Midrashic tradition teaches
Growing up in Bensonhurst afforded me certain opportunities other boys my age did not have. As an example, immediately after my bar mitzvah, I became
Part II In my previous article, I wrote about the process I went through while applying to college, and gave some tips about how to
About 10 months ago, I was thinking about what I wanted to do for my bar mitzvah project. My parents and I went through a
We faced a great dilemma in our household last week. Nina came upon a card sent to her parents for their 50th Anniversary. It was
There are many unanswered questions about the universe. Why are we here? How did we get here? Is the sun going to destroy the planet?
These days it’s too easy to offend people. People are offended by statues of people who are long dead and that have been standing since
New Jersey’s famous beaches stretch from Sandy Hook all the way down to Cape May, and there is so much more to do than just
There was a time when the Poconos were not Jewish friendly. Today, there are camps and cabins, hotels and conference centers frequented by Jewish families.
Rabbi Noam Shimon Cohen, director of Chabad of Ocean City, Maryland, loves it when Memorial Day ushers in the busy summer season at this coastal
“You need a touchup, a keratin treatment and you have gray hairs in your eyebrows!” Imagine these being the first words I heard from a
