Dear Shanya B, I am wondering if I should invite my not so popular friends to my bar mitzvah party? I don’t want it to
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As is often true in a yeshiva, it’s the rosh yeshiva who can best convey the Ikar (essence) of an important matter. This was certainly
Antisemitism will never go away, but if Jews unite and find common ground on Israel’s right to exist, we may be able to drown out
The Biden administration must abandon nuclear talks and strengthen the Iranian protesters. My Iranian Jewish friends who live in the United States are telling me
Boy Scout Troop 226, which meets weekly at the Jewish Center of Teaneck, joined Troop 613 of West Hempstead for an overnight camping trip on
Why Jacob? That is the question we find ourselves asking repeatedly as we read the narratives of Genesis. Jacob is not what Noah was: righteous,
Differing Traditions Rav Ovadia Yosef (Teshuvot Yabia, Omer 6, Yoreh Deah 7 and Yalkut Yosef, Yoreh Deah 89:46) permits Sephardic Jews to eat meat after
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רַבִּי אוֹמֵר … וֶהֱוֵי זָהִיר בְּמִצְוָה קַלָּה כְּבַחֲמוּרָה, שֶׁאֵין אַתָּה יוֹדֵעַ מַתַּן שְׂכָרָן שֶׁל מִצְוֹת. וֶהֱוֵי מְחַשֵּׁב הֶפְסֵד מִצְוָה כְּנֶגֶד שְׂכָרָהּ, ושְׂכַר עֲבֵרָה כְּנֶגֶד
In Sefer Yirmiyahu, Chapter 31, Yirmiyahu details the scene in heaven as Am Yisrael leave Eretz Yisrael following the second Beit Hamikdash’s destruction. The pesukim
