In 1985, Sudan was wracked by civil war. Millions died and millions more were displaced, fleeing for their lives to refugee camps in Ethiopia, Kenya

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 Sanhedrin

Bereishit: 24:12-18 “Can I get you anything, Rina?” It was definitely a bad sign if the waiter at Mendy’s knows your name. It’s probably means

Is it one bracha or two brachot that men recite when wearing tefillin? It turns out that this is one of the differences between Sephardic

This week’s parsha has a very interesting word: M-Sh-T-A-H. The entire phrase is: “ve-ha-ish mishtaeh lah.” The man is Eliezer and the “lah” refers to

Parshat Chayei Sarah This week’s haftarah, the opening chapter of Sefer Melachim, compares and contrasts the final days of David HaMelech with those of Avraham

Rav Yerucham Levovitz would often say Sefer Bereishis is not just a book of stories; it’s an instruction manual on how to live life—a Torah

There was a debate in the beit midrash, the House of Study, in Babylonia, some 2,000 years ago. Which verse best summarizes the entire Torah?

The ongoing drama surrounding the Catalan independence referendum raises the question of the historical relationship between the Catalan region and the rest of the Iberian

What can a story about the death of our matriarch Sarah teach us about the beginning of Jewish continuity? As a Jewish educator and head

I commend my friend Rabbi Dov Emerson for addressing the issue of our teens, smartphones and social media in his recent article, “Happiness in the

Always looking for new and different ways to meet people, on Tuesday I had the honorable experience of being a poll worker for the Bergenfield