This past Motzei Shabbat the Englewood community hosted its first community Siyum Hashas. The event featured inspiring presentations, delicious food and striking displays of achdut
Abarbanel’s Question Abarbanel’s question regarding David Hamelech’s instruction to Shlomo Hamelech to kill Yoav ben Teruyah looms large whenever one encounters Melachim I 2. This
May these words of Torah serve as a merit le’iluy nishmat Meira Chaya Nechama Bracha, aleha hashalom, bat Reb David Mordechai, sheyichyeh. Brachot 9: A
Parshat Vayechi The 12 pesukim from Sefer Melachim I that make up this week’s haftarah contain within them much to ponder and much from which
At Genesis 49:21, Naftali is given the following blessing: “Naftali ayalah sheluchah, ha-noten imrei shefer.” Here is the translation in the ArtScroll Stone Chumash: “a
I recently listened to an interview of someone discussing Abraham Maslow and his 1943 paper “A Theory of Human Motivation” in Psychological Review. Maslow was
I am back in New Jersey, after experiencing a truly remarkable week in Israel for the Chidon HaTanach for adults (https://www.facebook.com/TheBibleContest/). While I finished in
This is Chacham Moshe Harary, zt”l. He was born in Aleppo, Syria, in 1830. He was the av bet din of the Aleppan Jewish community.
Reviewing: “Maimonides’ Grand Epistle to the Scholars of Lunel: Ideology and Rhetoric,” by Charles Sheer. Academic Studies Press; 2019. Paperback. 100 pages. English. ISBN-13: 978-1618119612
Reviewing: “Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas,” by Yaacob Dweck. Princeton University Press. 2019. Hardcover. 504 pages. English. ISBN-13: 978-0691183572. The year 1665 was
(Courtesy of Ashley Blaker) Ashley Blaker, the UK’s internationally acclaimed Jewish stand-up comedian, is returning to the United States with a hilarious and thought-provoking new
More than 500 women braved last year’s blizzard to attend the first-ever production by Meorot, a music and dance production company of junior high school
