The recent frenzy over the billion dollar-plus Powerball prize raises a serious question about the halachic and moral viability of lotteries. There is more to

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This month marks 25 years since I had the privilege of entering Rav Abba Bronspiegel’s shiur at the Yeshiva University’s Mazer Yeshiva Program. We continue

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I have recently been told that my columns are too much about me and not enough about my boys or anything else. Of course my

We live in an exciting age of air travel. A plane that just a few years ago could hold only 50 people now holds 200.

It looks as though next week will be a great time to go out to a restaurant and have some peace and quiet. Although the

The Talmud cryptically teaches us that in every generation, 36 righteous people “greet the Shechina,” the Divine Presence. From this arcane reference has emerged the