In a fiery speech at Rutgers Chabad, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations commemorated the October 7 attack on Israel by declaring, “The days
This past September, we were reminded once more that sometimes God says no to our prayers. That was when we learned that the IDF had
For Noam Milman, coming to the large gathering at Rutgers University of students commemorating the Oct. 7 anniversary of the terrorist attack on Israel was
Simchat Torah 1929 Rav Kook’s talmidim gathered in his yeshiva. It was Simchat Torah, but they wondered what the day would be like. The year
Each Sukkos, Rabbi Berel and Esther Raskin would host a big kiddush and Yom Tov get together in their sukkah with an open invitation to
How many times have we wished we could turn the clock back to October 6, armed with the knowledge we now possess? If only we
Where were you on the Saturday morning of October 7, 2023, Simchat Torah 5784? When did you first hear the devastating news from Israel? At
(This article was published in The Huffington Post on Oct. 6, 2011) Yom Kippur—the Day of Atonement—is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It
Many of our tefillot and piyutim over Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur take the form of an acrostic of the aleph-bet. Why do we use
Yom Kippur invites us to confront our own mortality—symbolized by the white garments we wear, which resemble burial shrouds. This day is a rehearsal for
What does “Azazel” refer to? Based on the context of the four times the word appears in Tanach—all of them in Vayikra 16 regarding the
Yom Kippur “Kol makom sheata motzeh gedulato shel HaKadosh Baruch Hu—sham ata motzeh anvatanuto … ” In Masechet Megillah (31a), Rabbi Yochanan teaches us: “Wherever
