This is an issue I have been thinking about for decades. We all know that word מלאך, which we usually translate as “angel.” What is

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We are looking for current yeshiva and seminary students who are willing to be interviewed via email, phone or WhatsApp for our famous Israel Spotlight

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Dear Rabbi Lawrence, When my sister’s son was born, it was on Shabbat. She lives on the Upper West Side in a small apartment and

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In time for yeshiva break, I, with my husband and three children, traveled to Vienna, Austria, to visit my husband’s 86-year-old (Holocaust survivor) mother and

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