Parshat Bechukotai This week’s parsha lists rewards in this world for keeping mitzvot. Peace, prosperity and other gifts are mentioned. However, nothing is mentioned about

Last week, 100 women of varied ages, 56 communities or geographic locales and representing the spectrum of hashkafot (backgrounds) within Orthodox Judaism engaged in networking,

On Wednesday morning, May 1, a couple of hours after returning home from a glorious Passover in Israel, my wife and I called The New

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herman Wouk died on May 17, just 10 days before his 104th birthday. His literary agent, Amy Rennert, said he passed away

The Religious Significance of the Tel Dan Stele It was an exciting part of our family’s Israel trip for Binyamin’s bar mitzvah in 2012. A

At Lev. 25:10 we are told: “[This year] shall be a ‘yovel’ to you. You will each return to your land….” What is the meaning

Parshat Behar The navi Yirmiyahu has been referred to as the “prophet of doom,” the seer who was vilified by many of his contemporaries for

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,

(This article was originally posted on eJewishPhilanthropy.com— https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/making-the-case-for-mentorship/) I could not get out of the car. It was a bright, clear morning in September, and

One could have had three or four breakfasts this past Sunday and then moved onto several brunches and lunches and finished the day with other

The fourth annual Harold Lerman Fund Program was held at the JCC Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikveh on May 12. The event, which honors the memory of

From May 16-19, four yeshiva high school teams competed in the third annual baseball tournament in Sharon, Massachusetts, in memory of Ezra Schwartz, H”YD, an