It’s a new year and Manhattan Day School is excited about the new faces joining the MDS community! MDS welcomes Emma Coniglio and Morah Jessica
On Sunday, Bi-Cultural Hebrew Academy hosted a summer carnival for its Pre-K and Kindergarteners. There were over 100 people who joined the school for a
Five years ago, I sat with my youngest daughter the night before she left for her first year of sleep-away camp and asked, “Are you
Is there a difference between “belief” and “faith” or, as we would say in Hebrew, between “emunah” and “bitachon”? Generally, we use these two terms
The Egla Arufa The egla arufa (Devarim 21:1-9) is known as one of the strangest mitzvot in the Torah. A dead body has been found
Reb Yitzchok Meir Gershtenkorn was a man of vision and action, a builder of both the people of Israel and the land of Israel. As
Question: When I cook for Shabbat, I like to taste the chicken soup and gravies to make sure they are properly spiced. Does that “make
A few years back, I spoke in my shul about the greatness and significance of the mitzvah of tzitzit. I quoted Chazal1 who state that
The Mishna (Ketubot 52b) describes a specific rabbinic institution called כְּתוּבַּת בְּנִין דִּכְרִין, an interesting use of lengthy Aramaic wording, citing words in a contract,
From my experience in the world of Jewish education, one major issue that teenagers struggle with is the concept of rabbinic authority. While they accept
Some commands in the Torah were understood so narrowly by the Sages that they were rendered almost inapplicable. One example is the ir ha-nidachat, the
Ketubot 50a You’ve been too busy to open your mail. When you finally do, it is overflowing with bills and letters. Solicitation letters from the
