Nobody likes to make mistakes. Sometimes we wish we were perfect, or feel that we should be. But the truth is that even the greatest
Hi Shayna, I really need your help. All my friends are going to the same sleep-away camp, and I’m not going with them. They’re always
Alarm bells recently went off among American Jews when Boston BDS, a shadowy group that has no identified members, published a detailed, interactive Mapping Project
States can legally refuse to do business with companies that engage in discriminating boycotts based on national origin, according to a recent ruling. Laws enacted
What was wrong with the actions of Korach and his fellow rebels? On the face of it, what they said was both true and principled.
One of the Gemara’s most charming and well-known stories involves a non-Jew who sought to be converted on condition that he be appointed as Kohen
Reb Hirsch Leib Lippel was a respected Breslover chassid and mashpia, one of the unique figures and Baalei Mesorah of Rebbe Nachman’s kevutzah (group) who
A number of years ago a friend mentioned that there was a shul not too far from me that was looking to hire a chazan
This week’s haftarah requires no deep analysis to understand our rabbis’ choice of the 11th and 12th chapters of Shmuel Aleph for today’s haftarah. The
“Oy l’rasha, v’oy l’shcheino,” “Woe is to a wicked person, and woe is to his neighbor.” This famous comment is quoted by Rashi in our
Last week, we encountered hafka’at kiddushin, abrogation of betrothal, as proposed by Rav Ashi, a sixth-generation Amora and redactor of the Talmud. Let’s consider how
”רַבָּן שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן גַּמְלִיאֵל אוֹמֵר, עַל שְׁלשָׁה דְבָרִים הָעוֹלָם עוֹמֵד, עַל הַדִּין וְעַל הָאֱמֶת וְעַל הַשָּׁלוֹם, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (זכריה ח) אֱמֶת וּמִשְׁפַּט שָׁלוֹם שִׁפְטוּ בְּשַׁעֲרֵיכֶם: (אבות
