“Reading homework? Again?” This reaction was common from Rabbi Grosberg’s seventh-grade Chumash class. One of Rabbi G’s goals was to help his students develop independent
On January 10, the New York State Legislature voted down both Plan A and Plan B congressional and legislative map proposals, after the state’s bi-partisan
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s observation that Iran is engaging in “nuclear blackmail” with Western negotiators provides a damning indictment of the current state of
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The OU website sets forth the bracha on apple sauce: “Shehakol is to be said if the apples are pureed. This applies mostly to commercially
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Moed Katan 3-4 In Moed Katan 3b, Rabbi Zeira makes a powerful point to Rabbi Abahu. Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel had each prohibited, by
Rav Yechezkel Levenstein, zt”l, the famed mashgiach of Yeshivas Mir, was a paradigm of mussar, avodas Hashem, emunah and bitachon. A man of great spiritual
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Try to tell a child today that when you were a kid you used to write letters, and he will look at you strangely. He
At the end of Exodus Chapter 17, we are told of a battle between the Israelites and Amalek. Moses said to Joshua: “Choose us men
