Everyone always wants advice before Pesach. Something about the holiday makes people want to send each other questions. Dear Mordechai, What’s wrong with my vacuum

For many, living in a Jewish community affords the opportunity to maintain existing friendships, rekindle old friendships and create new ones. Of course, not all

May these words of Torah serve as a merit le’iluy nishmat Menachem Mendel ben Harav Yoel David Balk, a”h. This week we learned Avoda Zara

Vayikra: 1:3-17 It is not easy teaching fourth grade boys about animal sacrifice, especially last period on a Friday afternoon. The sun was out, and

Part II A Sephardic storekeeper notices that an Ashkenazic customer wishes to purchase egg matzah for Pesach. He wonders if he is permitted to sell

Shavuot was the time that a portion of the first fruits were brought to the Temple for the priests, and Deut. 26:5-9 describes the prayer

During Shacharis and Mincha most weekdays, following Shemoneh Esrei, davening continues with the recitation of Tachanun. Perhaps the most under-appreciated section of davening, Tachanun is

Part II In an article on the Seder al-Tahwid liturgy found in the Geniza, liturgical scholar Ezra Fleischer postulated that the Kiddush ceremony on the

Shabbat HaChodesh Parshat Vayikra The final chapters of Sefer Yechezkel are prophecies that detail the construction of, and the service in, the future Beit Mikdash.

On February 13, RKYHS students heard from Yaakov Guttman, a former IDF soldier now serving as a firefighter in Tel Aviv, when he presented a

I find Yaakov Guttman’s story inspiring because he pulled himself up from an abyss of tragedy and walked the winding path of life. It could

Yaakov’s story is inspiring because the way he grew up, and became the man that he is today, showed how someone like him, someone who