Part II Before Pesach, I shared with you several reasons why even valuable and cherished old books and seforim sometimes need to find a new

Part 3 (Continued from last week) The train had to stop every 30 miles to grease the old axles and to let faster trains go

Cong. Etz Chaim, Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills (YIKGH) and the Yeshiva of Central Queens (YCQ) combined forces, as they have done annually, to

Seeing as I made a bar mitzvah a couple of months ago, some of you have been wondering when I’m going to get around to

What do the Jewish People and the television show “Game of Thrones” (“GOT”) have in common? The correct answer is not (i) men with long

The process of creating edible food can be daunting to a large portion of humanity. After all, you need to gather ingredients, mix them together,

Parshat Emor begins with the uniqueness of the kohanim. Kohanim have special halachot about marriage, purity and cutting their hair. Why is it so necessary

Does Ilhan Omar not realize that Israel ended its occupation of Gaza in 2005, when Israel removed every soldier and settler from that area? All decent

With so much Torah material available to us with Hashem’s help in our age, one must be very selective regarding which sefarim to read. Torah

May these words of Torah serve as a merit le’iluy nishmat Menachem Mendel ben Harav Yoel David Balk, a”h, and Meira Chaya Nechama Beracha, a”h,

Parshiyot Acharei Mot-Kedoshim The Book of Vayikra revolves around “Mikdash,” i.e., both the eventual Beit Hamikdash and the already completed Mishkan, beginning with the laws

At the splitting of the Yam Suf, the root that the Torah uses to refer to the splitting is bet-kof-ayin. See Exodus 14:21: “va-yivaku ha-mayim.”