This week’s haftarah, familiar to us as one of the post-Tisha B’Av haftarot of consolation, is a most fitting choice for the parsha of Noach.

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 Menachot 58.

Parshat Noach describes the Divine reboot of creation. Witnessing the complete moral meltdown of humanity, God decides to regenerate the entire world. A new world

Every year on Shabbos Parshas Bereishis I would begin my brilliant sermon (I only gave brilliant sermons) in the following manner: “We set out on

After multiple peregrinations since its inception in 2003, the Yeshiva Boys Choir will be hanging its hat in Passaic, enabling participation by Northern New Jersey

(Courtesy of Cirque Italia) Do you love thrilling, wicked or even dangerous things? Be ready to escape to a new world! Paranormal Cirque will expose

Don’t we all have different games hidden deep on their third screen or in their folder titled “transportation”? (Please tell me this is not just

Dr. Moshe Sokolow, a professor of Bible at Yeshiva University for many years, and associate dean of Azrieli, came out with this book in 2015.

Part 45 (written 2014) (Continued from previous week) I cannot express enough thanks to Pfarrer Hoffmann, not only for the time and effort he and

Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians from Melbourne, Australia, found common moral ground when publishing “An Education in a Shared Ethic,” a little-known but ground-breaking document

Part 1 Firstly, it is hard to believe we are already at Parshat Noach and past the jam-packed month of Tishrei. I hope all of

Reviewing: “Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law” by Chaim N. Saiman. Princeton University Press. 2018. Harcover. ISBN-13: 978-0691152110. The subtitle of the classic medieval work “The