There is something truly beautiful going on in Bergen County, New Jersey. Young Orthodox singles from rival towns are meeting and dating. Often, within a
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Dear Shayna B., I’m turning 14 soon. I want a party, but nobody my age is having birthday parties anymore. I don’t want to seem
The moment after Morah Miriam announced she was assigning a project, she regretted it. Before she could even finish the “ect” sound, the questions exploded
As I think about the recent turn of events in Texas, I am reminded of a speech I heard a Holocaust survivor, Marian Turski, give
Excerpted from Rabbi Sacks’ article, available in its entirety at www.rabbisacks.org. With Parshat Tetzaveh, something new enters Judaism: Torat Kohanim, the world and mindset of
Ashkenazic Approach Many Ashkenazic yeshiva students wear their tzitzit out, in line with the Mishna Berura’s (8:26) powerful exhortation to do so. The Chafetz Chaim
Parshat Tetzaveh The final chapters of Sefer Yechezkel are dedicated to a description of the final Beit Hamikdash, an indestructible one that would be built
Rebbe Yekusiel Yehuda Halberstam, zy”a, the “Shefa Chaim” of Klausenburg, Romania, was an extraordinary gaon and tzadik. During the Holocaust he suffered the murder of
כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל יֵשׁ לָהֶם חֵלֶק לָעוֹלָם הַבָּא, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר וְעַמֵּךְ כֻּלָּם צַדִּיקִים… (אבות, הקדמה; סנהדרין י:א) Last week we learned about our special son-father relationship with
What is the halachic definition of a shoteh, whose actions have limited halachic effect? A brayta on Moed Katan 3b provides three criteria: he goes
When our twins were born over five years ago, I was informed that my rebbe, Rabbi Berel Wein, happened to be in Monsey. It was
