Excerpted from this week’s dvar Torah at www.rabbisacks.org. There is an important principle in Judaism, a source of hope and also one of the structuring

The Question One morning about five minutes before Shaharit, my colleague Rav Yoni Mandelstam and I were approached by a fine TABC ben Torah, unsure

Parashat Teruma The charge given to B’nai Yisrael in this week’s parsha, i.e., to raise funds for the construction of a center of religious worship,

She returned from the cemetery on Friday afternoon, Erev Sukkot, just before sundown, after bidding him a final farewell. She took off her shoes and

“Tevyeh der Milchiker” is the beloved fictional protagonist series of short stories by Sholem Aleichem, including the most well known of them, “Fiddler on the

Judaism is a monotheistic religion. As Devarim 4:35 tells us, Hashem is God, and there is none beside Him. We shouldn’t mentally invest other entities

One night just before Tu b’Shevat, our five-year-old son Gavriel asked for an apple. My wife cut up the apple into pieces for him to

הוּא (רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא) הָיָה אוֹמֵר… חֲבִיבִין יִשְׂרָאֵל שֶׁנִּקְרְאוּ בָנִים לַמָּקוֹם. חִבָּה יְתֵרָה נוֹדַעַת לָהֶם שֶׁנִּקְרְאוּ בָנִים לַמָּקוֹם, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (דברים יד) בָּנִים אַתֶּם לַה’ אֱלֹהֵיכֶם (אבות

רעי: This word means “my shepherd.” This noun derives from the root רעה which means: “to pasture/tend to animals.” But wait a minute, doesn’t this

 Amid the dejection experienced in the wake of my father’s recent passing from COVID, I pause to acknowledge my good fortune: because I seized the

On the morning of November 18, 2014, two terrorists broke into synagogue services at Kehilat Bnei Torah in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem and

It’s that time again! We are looking for current yeshiva and seminary students who are willing to be interviewed via email, phone or WhatsApp for