This past Chanukah, my daughter and I had the great opportunity to visit Yosemite National Park. We were spending the second half of Chanukah with

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Remember those kids in high school who played music and managed to convince everyone that one day their classmates and teachers would boast that they

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My oldest son put on Tefillin for the first time today. And no, this isn’t a kiruv article. He’s becoming bar mitzvah! And no, you’re

There are many perplexing topics in Judaism and one of them is the role of Satan. Many scholars have been bedeviled by this subject and

We experience miracles very frequently. The question and challenge we have is whether we are sufficiently alert and spiritually sensitive to notice them. A most

I had always wondered what view of dreams was reflected in biblical Hebrew. My initial thought was that Ḥ-L-M might have derived from Ḥ-L-H (sick).

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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,

For all our technological innovations and uncanny advancements, there is still one thing we have absolutely no control over: the weather. Last week, a polar

Here’s the million-dollar question: Why do people think it’s okay to talk when someone else is? OK, not people, kids; OK, not kids, students. And