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With a track record of mentorship, volunteerism, and community involvement, Johnson embodies the values of integrity, compassion, and service that are essential for a Surrogate’s Court judge.
Time and again, with dozens of videos as evidence, these campus encampments have not merely been places to advocate for a cause but to limit the advocacy of anyone else’s cause.
His music represents a departure from most frum Jewish music written in the last 100 years, which centers lyrics, almost entirely unaltered, from Tanach and other classic Jewish sources, set to “Jewish music,” and even that music is often borrowed – from secular pop music.
I’ll have my foot in the door. When the approach is collaborative and not oppositional, that’s when you can talk to people, talk to colleagues, and work things out.
The choleh is most important, because only he knows his own body. Once Yom Kippur begins, it’s only me, and one has to trust his own body.
For years, proportional to our population numbers, Jews have been the target of hate crimes far more than any other group, according to a study by the American Enterprise Institute based on the FBI’s hate crimes data.
This is a contest. We actually have a little known contest every year at the parade for our marching groups.
Why can't a chassan send a simple beautiful bouquet? Why must it be a massive, towering monstrosity?
Addressing the deeper issues that may lay behind the recent surge in anti-Semitic violence, Barr said that strengthening religious values within society may be necessary.
In Israel, most people are more careful to stress the end of the word (what’s called “mil’ra”), where it usually belongs for Hebrew words.
The factory owners said that it was dried crab. My translator, not knowing that I understand what he is saying, started to explain to them that their answer is not good and they must find a better answer, so they said seaweed.
The people who did not attend – I respect them, but none of them have been chosen as the party’s nominee.
If we base things on results, there’s no reason to make new guidelines.
Whether the rest of us admit it or not, covers draw our attentions and create the initial impressions we have with books.
While I do a lot of non-fiction writing, including copy writing for organizations which involves its own form of creativity, fiction was, and still is, my first writing love.
There’s much, much more in Naftali’s remarkable life, and yet, ultimately, one wonders: this is all well and good, but where is Dr. Reich going with these stories?
The Rav explains that Hashem is everyone's rebbe. Whenever someone learns, he is learning with Hashem.
Schneider says the values he learned growing up in a Jewish household play a large role in his activism and desire to serve his community. It is what gives him such a strong commitment to pursing justice and volunteering for the community.
The Jewish Press: In addition to your weekly Jewish Press columns on Talmud and Choshen Mishpat, you’ve written two books – Ner Eyal 1: A Guide to the Laws of Shabbat and Festivals in Seder Moed and, most recently, Ner Eyal 2: A Guide to Seder Nashim, Nezikin, Kodashim, Taharot and Zera’im. What motivated you […]
Roland and the NYU team that accompanied him trained the surgeons at Shaare Zedek Medical Center to do this procedure well so that next time they can operate autonomously.
Remembering Rabbi Maurice Lamm (1930-2016)
In one incident, protesters yelled at Jewish students: “Zionists out of CUNY!” and “Get out of America!”
Rabbi Mordechai Millunchick has been looking for bones in Chicago’s museums since 2008.
Whether the rest of us admit it or not, covers draw our attentions and create the initial impressions we have with books.
Every Jew has their own deeply personal reasons for becoming Torah observant. We have no right to judge any Jew’s motivation. Our job is just to help guide them on the path to the Torah.
We have to respect religion. We have to respect people's freedom of religion; it’s one of the guarantees in our Bill of Rights.
Creativity without clarity is not sufficient for writing. I am eternally thankful to Hashem for his gift to me.
Israel’s morality is underscored by its unprecedented restraint and care for loss of life.
With Journey of Faith in front of you during the shul’s leining, or at home on a long Shabbos afternoon, you’ll enjoy worthy insights and see the entire sefer anew.
How political movements gain footholds remains one of the great true-life mysteries.
Filling two vacuums at once – one of Orthodox women taking a more public role and a second of Modern Orthodox Jews demonstrating the merits of religious Jewish practice – Allison Josephs has transformed her sweet and engaging webisodes and blog into a larger force. Jew in the City is now a franchise.
All the books reviewed in this supplement can serve as great gifts; the books reviewed briefly below do as well.
While we know a lot about our greatest forebears from the Chumash and later biblical generations, even if there are often gaps in their life stories, we know considerably less about the Sages of the Mishnah (the Tennaim) and of the Gemara (the Amora’im), collectively known as Chazal – our Sages, of blessed memory.
Zakheim frequently used his access to ambulances and helicopters to transfer sick or injured individuals to hospitals.
You’ll never get anything you need or want if you don’t ask. You have to ask the questions. Treasure this advice, because it’s one of the best you’ll get in life. At times it’s thorny and complicated to ask another for something – what if he says no and your request is rebuffed. Rejection is hard to take. And what if you’re imposing or the requestee has a hard time saying no? But you’ll also never get a “yes” without first asking.
The Holidays are over (please, no applause). But if you find yourself already missing them, rejoice, rejoice. A pleasurable new compendium of poetry by newcomer Yossi Huttler will keep you warm until Chanukah, Purim and – dare we say it too soon – Pesach once again come into view.
New York State Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D-Queens) is a candidate in New York’s 6th Congressional District in the June 26 Democratic primary. Lancman, who served as an officer in New York’s 42nd infantry division and as a local community board member, recently met with The Jewish Press Editorial Board. He addressed Israel and local issues.
Like other chassidic dynasties, Bobov was not immune to one day experiencing a schism. When Rabbi Naftali Zvi Halberstam, the fourth Bobover Rebbe, died in 2005, a dispute arose over who would succeed him. Some chassidim sought to appoint his younger half-brother, Rabbi Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam, as the next rebbe; and others sought out the fourth rebbe’s sons-in-law: Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger as the rebbe, and Rabbi Yehoshua Rubin as the Bobov rav (serving as head of the bet din and as the posek).
In response to community objections, a prominent Brooklyn synagogue will not proceed, for the moment, with the construction of a 65-foot annex to its main building, according to several members of the Syrian Orthodox community in Brooklyn who asked not to be named. However, they will most probably not permanently shelve the project altogether.
