Editor’s note: This series is reprinted with permission from “Insights & Attitudes: Torah Essays on Fundamental Halachic and Hashkafic Issues,” a publication of TorahWeb.org. The

A Dropped Slurpee During the pandemic, a favorite Jachter family activity was to order Slurpees delivered from a local store (see https://oukosher.org/kosher-slurpee-list/ for more information

My shul has a guard station near the entrance. The non-Jewish guard has instructions that, on Shabbat, he should get up to open the door

Yosef, the main character in these parshiyot, is described by Chazal as “Yosef Hatzaddik.” The obvious question that arises is why? Yosef had many great

וַיְהִי מִקֵּץ שְׁנָתַיִם יָמִים וּפַרְעֹה חֹלֵם וְהִנֵּה עֹמֵד עַל־הַיְאֹר׃ (בראשית מא:א) “And it was at the end of two years, and Pharaoh dreamed and he

Did Rav Yosef blind himself in a fit of piety? The story  goes that he sat in a dark house for 40 days and, when

Editor’s Note: The Jewish Link is pleased to present our first ever End of Year Giving section to highlight the many incredible organizations that serve

Masbia, cookbook author Naomi Ross ask the public for help to feed the needy. (Courtesy of Masbia) Large amounts of emergency food, including ingredients to

(Courtesy of Meir Panim) As 2022 winds to a close, Meir Panim has been scrambling to meet the needs of its many patrons, both “regulars”

Double your impact with Yeshivat Shalshelet’s Chanukah campaign: All gifts matched dollar for dollar. (Courtesy of Yeshivat Shalshelet) Chanukah is a time of overcoming obstacles,

In my mind the candles burning on my menorah on the first night of Chanukah were definitely not burning as brightly as they have in

Long after the soldiers in Judah the Maccabee’s army struck oil in the holy Temple of Jerusalem, Jews, both of Ashkenazic and Sephardic descent, struck