I’m 24 years old and engaged. Everything is, so far, so good. But there is one problem that is really irking me and I figured

The gaon and tzadik Rav Shimon Galei, shlita, stood in front of the Kosel leading thousands in the public recitation of Tehillim. In a voice

Reviewing “Sukkot Is Coming!” by Tracy Newman, illustrated by Viviana Garofoli. Kar-Ben Publishing, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., Minneapolis, MN. Hardcover, 12 pages,

During the 16 years I lived in Florida, I saw 80-year-olds who played tennis weekly, an 85-year-old who actively owned three Walgreens, and an 88-year-old

This week, our community joined too many others who have confronted the impossible task of saying goodbye to a young person stolen from this world,

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

I sat in shul this Yom Tov focused on my davening. My seat was against a wall, where I prefer to sit, so as not

A young rabbi called before Rosh Hashanah with an inquiry regarding the Sephardic piyut for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, “Hashem Shamati Shim’acha Yareiti.” It

This Shabbos there will be no Kiddush, no challah and no cholent. For many, there will be no Shabbos nap either. This Shabbos is Yom

On Yom Kippur, we are privileged to read two haftarot: the first, read during Shacharit, is taken from Sefer Yeshayahu, while the second haftarah, read

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”—Herman Hesse Yom Kippur, the most serious day of the Jewish

It was a year of first names. Indeed, there was Donald, Nikki and, sadly, even Harvey and Irma. Certainly, much happened in the Hebrew year