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

It’s hard to imagine that it was just about a year ago when we woke up on that November morning and were faced with some

On November 2, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. Sent by British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur James Balfour in a letter to

Part II (written 2004) (Continued from last week) But my story would not be a story to tell were it not for my parents, Josef

“If you want to take the island you need to burn the boats.”—Tony Robbins Nearly five years ago I was facing an important decision, a