יום שלישי, ח׳ תמוז תשפ״וTuesday, June 23, 2026
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As is customary, I took a little Tehillim off the bookshelf, stood by the kever, and let the Tehillim fall open, on its own, to whichever perek it chose. It fell open to Perek 78. Or, in Hebrew, ayin zayin. Oz.
No, my father said, already shocked at the low amount (which included the aufruf meal), I want to pay for the whole thing. (He assumed Yaakov’s father was asking for half.) My father-in-law said, That IS the whole thing.
A video shows Blinken meeting with terrorist supporter Mahmoud Abbas, in Jordan, with the enemy's flag in the background. What a shame, what an insult.
If all one does is pick up the book and flip through it to look at the photos and captions and charts such as these, they will gain a wide window into Jewish history, scholarship and life.
The piece de resistance was interviewing Naomi herself, who told the story about how she, after her mother’s urging, joined B’nei Akiva as a teenager and knew then she would live in Israel someday.
All these mitzvot are in order that the poor people of your town be able to eat. I see it as doing a ‘reset’ once in seven years, he says.
To ignore that zchut and davka to look to eat yevul nochri is in my humble opinion like ignoring the miraculous zchut that HaKadosh Baruch Hu gave us in our times.
The laws of shemittah apply only to produce grown within the boundaries of Eretz Yisrael. Exactly where the boundaries extend is a matter of halachic discussion.
You have to [let the land lie fallow] with full emunah. I understand when people say it’s difficult.
As often is the case, the strongest motivational factor to do something is when somebody tells you that you can’t do it.
This magnificent project, the Talmudic Encyclopedia, gives students the breadth of the Torah…I read the entry on ‘chazaka’ ... this is a very difficult topic ... But if one reads this entry in the Talmudic Encyclopedia, it is so clear, it is so organized, all the intricate details, it’s astonishing.
We felt that to discover ourselves we had to leave home, our families, our attachments to our professions. Like Avraham Avinu leaving his birthplace … almost erasing personal history in order to really discover oneself.
Even though there is competition over recruiting students, there is no competition about making life good for the students, and that has been the same way for years; we share information. There are no secrets here, no intellectual property.
Theresienstadt does not look like a concentration camp, rather it is a quaint town today, with landmarks of Jewish Holocaust-related buildings scattered throughout.
Seventy-seven percent of its preschool graduates continue on to regular classes. Projects are established as the needs of the community change.
Perhaps the Nazis could destroy the bodies of the Jews but not the Torah and the soul...
In 2001, David Ehrlich, an Israeli promotional filmmaker originally from New York, was down on his luck. He and his wife, Gail, a pre-school teacher, had recently moved their family from Jerusalem to Efrat, but the Second Intifada and a dip in the finances of non-profits had thrown a wrench into his business.
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