Shavuos was a time of change and great expectations. Instead of being slaves and subjected to the will of Pharaoh and the Egyptian people, this
On Sunday, June 4, tens of thousands of people will gather along Fifth Avenue to march in solidarity with Israel, and join together at the
Shavuot night: A time to celebrate receiving the Torah, often spent attending shiurim given by our rabbis and community leaders. But what if your community
A couple of years ago, we hosted a guest for a Shabbos meal. At the end, we passed around benchers for Birkas Hamazon from our
In the winter of 2016, I went with our oldest son Shalom to Eretz Yisroel in honor of his bar mitzvah. While there we had
Second Day Of Shavuot Shavuot. “Z’man Matan Torateinu.” And, given that we see these days as the time when we received the Torah’s laws, (when
(Courtesy of JFSCNJ) Azi Feuerberg, a seventh-grade student at the Jewish Educational Center in Elizabeth, and his parents, Aliza and Andy Feuerberg from Hillside, decided
Although Menachem Mendel Beilis came from a chasidishe family, he was “indifferent” to religion and assimilated—working at a brick factory, seven days a week in
In continuation of our enthusiastic endorsement of the many chesed organizations in our communities, this week we are happy to introduce the very important work
A Day to Appreciate Shavuot—the holiday that celebrates the giving of the Torah—is the time when both Hashem and the Jewish people reflect upon our
Through the traditional readings on Shavuot, we experience revelation in multiple forms. In the Torah reading on the first day, we prepare our bodies for
What are the core beliefs for religious Jews, sometimes referred to as Religious Zionists, who also view Medinat Israel as authored by Hashem? The radical
