יום חמישי, י״ד אלול תשפ״וThursday, August 27, 2026
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Is it ever appropriate to get drunk?
The Biden administration has made its agendas clear. Which policy do you look forward to the most?
Should a Jew avoid living in Germany? What about doing business there?
There's something uniquely appropriate about opening a new restaurant in the middle of a lockdown and then calling it Prohibition Pickle
"My husband and I have been volunteering for so long, it has become a part of us and defines who we are as individuals and as a couple."
With interest in Jewish day schools reaching record-breaking highs, outreach organizations like Oorah and CHAZAQ are stepping up to help parents capitalize on the trend.
Should a parent encourage a child who wants to join the U.S. Army?
In retrospect, which group of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto were correct – those who favored fighting the Nazis or those who opposed doing so?
Should parents name their child after an ancestor if that ancestor's name sounds strange to modern ears (an extreme example would be “Yenta”) and the child may later feel awkward sharing his or her name with others?
The Jewish Press asked numerous prominent people in the Jewish community to share their thoughts in 50 words or less on leaving 2020 and entering 2021.
Is it appropriate to invite yeshiva bachurim to one’s Shabbos table if one has a teenage girl at home?
Is it proper for an ordinary Jew (as opposed to Avraham Avinu, Moshe Rabbeinu, or R’ Levi Yitzchok of Berditchiv) to challenge G-d?
A new Israel Center for Advanced Nuclear Medicine at Sheba Medical Center is being builts thanks to businessman and philanthropist Roman Abramovich.
For several centuries, the term ‘Orthodox Judaism’ has been synonymous with Torah observance – commitment to following the 613 Commandments and Rabbinic enactments as described in our classical sources.
Williamsburg actually seems to have the lowest death rate of any frum neighborhood.
Is it appropriate to read works of fantasy – say, Harry Potter, for example?
Is having a natural birth advisable, inadvisable, or a value-free decision?
Chris Ruddy, CEO and majority owner of Newsmax, told The Jewish Press that he has tried numerous times to get RCN to carry his channel but has not been successful.
What level of priority should a frum Jew give to studying sefarim like Koheles, Shir HaShirim, and Iyov?
Should you give money to a panhandler on the street (or a subways car) if you have no idea if the person really needs it or not (e.g., he may take the money to buy drugs)?
“Until there’s a final decision or a final count, we won’t welcome anyone to office,” Rabbi David Katz said.
A leader in the world of Jewish philanthropy, JCF continues to be the largest and most active Jewish donor advised fund in the country with more than $2 billion in charitable assets under management.
Should you read the Rambam’s Guide for the Perplexed if you aren’t perplexed?
Should a person daven a long Shemoneh Esrei if others around him might consider him arrogant (or holier than thou) as a result?
"This is the daily heroism that is shown by these women, who I am proud to call my fellow EMS responders, my associates, and my friends."
All three are likely to happen, but which will happen first?
“The smell of the apartment can't be described, it was almost tangible,” Bismouth recounted.
So many answers to choose from
If it looks like a witch-hunt, swims like a witch-hunt, and quacks like a witch-hunt, then it’s probably a witch-hunt.
Is it okay for a young man to leave his parents’ mesorah and join another (e.g., for a chassid to become yeshivish, for a dati le’umi/Modern Orthodox Jew to become black-hat, etc.)?
The planes flew over Poriah, Hadassah Ein Kerem, Hillel Yaffe and Laniado hospitals, and later over the beaches of Herzliya, Tel Aviv and Ashdod.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in educational institutions that receive federal funding.
The governor is contributing directly to the spread of the virus of anti-Semitism. There’s no two ways about it. We see it, we hear it, we know it.
Is it ever appropriate for a husband to put his foot down with his wife or a wife with her husband? Or is compromise the answer no matter what the issue is?
"We are excited and together we will pray that God might lead us to peace and that we might reach our destination for good life and peace."
Segal said, Netanyahu called the timing of the infection a "disaster."
Who do you think will win the 2020 presidential election?
Is following sports a waste of time or harmless pleasure?
“[W]e were successful in the spring and we will be successful once again,” the group said in a statement released on Monday.
Is it appropriate for a man to wear cologne?
Tischler told The Jewish Press that the city’s intent in holding the press conference in Boro Park (on 18th Ave. and 56th St.) was “to embarrass us.”
If Albert Einstein had been frum, should he have become a rosh yeshiva rather than a scientist?
Pioneer of the revived Jewish Community of Hebron has passed at age 83.
How does a person let go of a grudge against someone who harmed him or her egregiously?
Should rabbis recommend that people vote for a particular candidate?
From a hashkafic perspective, is it important for a Jewish man to have a beard?
In Psalms, we say, “Chadeish yameinu ke’kedem – Renew our days as of old.” In other words, revive today with the fire and passion of those early, founding days. “Make America Great Again” can refer to such an endeavor.
How would you advise fulfilling the mitzvah of “you shall surely rebuke your fellow”?
At what age would you advise parents to allow their children to have a cell phone?
If parents disagree with something their child learned in school, should they say something? Or is it better for them to bite their lip and say nothing?
For her outspokenness, Loomer has been banned from Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms.
Is it proper for a Jew to propose on one knee?
There is no difference in attitude towards the colonizer whether the local inhabitants are of a high cultural level or primitive.
What should one do if one hears about persecution of a people in a foreign land?
Is it proper, l’chatchilah, for a young married couple to apply for government welfare programs like food stamps and section 8?
Is trying to reconcile Torah with current scientific knowledge proper?
During his half-hour on air, Resnick urged the show’s audience to stand tall and defend biblical values in American society.
Circumcised At The Hand Of Heaven? ‘A Drop of Blood Must be Taken’ (Shabbos 135a)
Should an ordinary Jew endeavor to say Tikkun Chatzos? If not regularly, perhaps sometimes?
The increase in Jewish school enrollment last year is the slowest that it has been in a while and reflects a mass exodus to New Jersey, says Yossi Gestetner, a co-founder of OJPAC.
May one enjoy good food or is the ideal to not care what one eats as long as it gives one strength to serve Hashem?
Is it proper to watch or enjoy the sport of boxing?
Chassidim said that the way to shun evil is through doing good; however, there is value in doing good for its own sake, said Rabbi Waldman.
Should the average Jew learn Kabbalah?
In light of your support for and participation in recent protests in New York City, the message to the public from New York City’s government appears to favor certain secular gatherings and disfavor religious gatherings.
Is it proper to let one’s children watch movies?
For hundreds of years, Jews in Poland fasted on the 20th of Sivan to commemorate the tens of thousands of Jews killed in the Chmielnitzky uprising of 1648-49. Yet, we don’t fast today for the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. Why not?
For bar mitzvah boys: Should you give them a sefer in Hebrew, which they may not be able to read for another five years (or perhaps ever), or should you give them something in English?
Is it appropriate to share mother-in-law jokes?
List of locations where the New York City Department of Education is providing free meals available daily for any New Yorker.
Called “Vayicha Sham Yisrael Neged Hahar – K’Ish Echad B’Lev Echad,” the event is dedicated to the memory of the Noviminsker Rebbe.
When bad things happen to someone else, is it appropriate to speculate why?
How does a young woman determine what is or isn’t immodest when it comes to clothing that falls in the grey area of tznius?... Ask her mother? A teacher?
Hundreds of intensive care beds were inaugurated at Sheba Medical Center, to serve in times of national emergencies.
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