Question: My community has a project that in our pruzbul (a mechanism to obviate shemitat kesafim), one excludes a loan given through a gemach, upon
”הָיָה אִם־שָׁמוֹעַ תִּשְׁמַע בְּקוֹל ידוד אֱלֹהֶיךָ לִשְׁמֹר לַעֲשׂוֹת אֶת־כׇּל־מִצְוֺתָיו אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוְּךָ הַיּוֹם וּנְתָנְךָ ידוד אֱלֹהֶיךָ עֶלְיוֹן עַל כׇּל־גּוֹיֵי הָאָרֶץ׃ בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה בְּבֹאֶךָ וּבָרוּךְ אַתָּה
Over the past two years, I have collected material on many words that do not warrant an entire column. I present this “collage” of material
This week’s parsha, KiTavo, ends with the declaration, “Yet, to this day, the Lord has not given you a heart/mind to understand, or eyes to
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Close to 30 years ago, I was invited to participate in a regional convention of New Jersey NCSY in one of the upstate New York
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in The Times on May 31, 2012. Punctuality, said Louis XVIII of France, is the politeness of kings.
This week we remember Queen Elizabeth II. I’d like to share some of my memories of her. During my time in Canada, the Commonwealth, I
Queen Elizabeth II was an exemplar of much I hold dear: unflinching devotion to duty, commitment to her people, personal dignity, tradition and belief in
I have two questions: First, why did my daughter always want to dress up like a princess for Purim? And second, why are we so
Kudos to Nina Glick for her recent Jewish Link piece about the plague of loud noise in our community. This was the subject of a
When we toast, we Jews like to say, “L’chaim,” which means, of course, “to life!” But maybe we should be saying, “L’mavet,” “to death,” to
