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The book explains that when a boy becomes bar mitzvah, profound spiritual effects are set into motion.
Parents should avoid discussing their child’s worries in front of him. Hearing about his own problems can often cause more anxiety and result in seeing his problems as larger than they are.
By Raffi Crouse
Albo insists that the highest form of divine service is performed from love rather than fear, and that even the commandments the mind resists should be done with joy, the way a person digs gladly through hard ground for a buried treasure.
How can I communicate more effectively with someone who often gets defensive or seems focused mainly on himself?
One of the strengths of this edition is the care invested in the actual text itself. Many students of the Rambam do not realize that over the centuries, often due to unintended copyist and printing errors, mistakes crept into some editions of the Mishneh Torah.
By Mendi Glik
When he sings at a chuppah and sees the chosson and kallah glowing, Faiden knows he is fulfilling his shlichus.
Balancing work, community responsibilities, and family life is not easy. However, consistently making time for your family can have a profound impact on your children's upbringing and on marital harmony.
SpaceX's proposed IPO, targeting up to $75 billion in proceeds, would shatter the previous record held by Saudi Aramco, which raised $29.4 billion in 2019. Elon Musk could become the world's first trillionaire. The numbers are staggering, almost cartoonish. And yet the market believes. Why?
When a guy doesn’t pick up a girl for a date, it steals some of that thoughtfulness from the date. It diminishes effort and energy. It robs the date of the romance it could have had. That’s a loss to both you and to him.
One of the most distinctive features of Bene Israel religious life is its special devotion to the Prophet Elijah. While Elijah occupies an honored place throughout the Jewish world, among the Bene Israel he became an especially beloved figure.
We need to cut the red tape that makes it overly costly and time-consuming to build new housing (or just to fix up your house) or to open a new business. We need to provide training for young people who wish to enter careers that are well-paying and that our community needs more of.
I was fortunate enough to be the high bidder of the item, and thought little of it over the years.
Born consistently resisted efforts by younger physicists to portray Einstein as obsolete or reactionary, and he publicly emphasized Einstein’s foundational role in creating the conceptual framework without which quantum theory itself could not exist.
When a sovereign government fails to govern, neutralize hostile actors within its borders, and protect its neighbors from domestic threats, it forfeits its monopoly on defensive authority.
Throughout his life, my father, who closely studied history and politics, educated those around him about the dangers of antisemitism and its tendency to surface in every generation.
By Avi Ganz
At the same time, the Jews of Cape Town or Teaneck, Boro Park or Antwerp are just as Jewish as the Jews of Bnei Brak, Tiberias, and Jerusalem. All of them have a divinely-gifted share in the Land of Israel.
Starting from the aliyah that marks the bar mitzvah, life is marked by aliyot. And as soon as we reach one height, we begin scaling the next.
Aliyah isn’t just the uplifting of a soul. In a quite different meaning of the same word, aliyah refers to the men, women and children who have uprooted themselves and have returned home to the land of Israel.
It is the vertical that reminds us about our creator and that gives us a sense of proportion between our powers and His.
Strip away the punditry and the word still means what it always meant: a Yid going up. The mountain hasn't moved. The Beis HaMikdash is still missing. The longing in the word is still older than any flag.
Iran’s entire asymmetric military strategy relies on its ability to inflict intolerable economic pain on the West by disrupting global energy markets.
New York law adds one more step that catches many new owners off guard: before the job is really done, the LLC has to be published in a newspaper. A printed one.
By Irwin Cohen
Cox racked up 2,504 career victories, fourth best in baseball history among managers. The respected and beloved baseball lifer was 84 when he died.
By Mendi Glik
At his parents’ home, everyone sang – not professionally, but they all loved to sing. He has bli ayin hara 11 siblings, so you can just imagine their Shabbat table when they were growing up. Not only did everyone sing, but every sibling wanted to be the lead singer.
Dysgraphia is not simply a motor problem, but also involves information processing skills (transferring thoughts from the mind through the hand onto the paper).
Unfortunately, many people associate needing an emergency alert device with feeling old, weak, or vulnerable. In reality, the exact opposite is true.
By Miriam Feit
A miracle is every movement and every word we say, A friendly gesture, or a smile that graces our day;
I became less of an operator and more of a leader. With exceptional people around me, I could delegate. I could focus on the few things only the CEO could do.
Selling the home, paying off the mortgage, and accepting a large tax bill may feel painful. Few people enjoy writing large checks to the IRS. However, taxes are sometimes the price of simplifying life and unlocking financial flexibility.
By Marc Gronich
How is it possible that when we’re living in a world where you need police protection to observe your faith, for Yom Kippur, for Rosh Hashanah, for any of the holy days, that’s not a scandal?
Rather than silently altering the text or replacing problematic passages with revised wording, the printers chose a different approach. Wherever material was omitted, they simply left a blank space on the page.
You are not missing anything. Everything has been going smoothly because it can. You don’t need conflict or disagreement. You don’t need an issue to address or a problem to fix.
Under no circumstances does Golding recommend glossing over the horrors.
Although he did not court the approval of Jewish newspapers, he was acutely aware of their influence in liberal circles, writing privately that “Approval or disapproval in the Jewish press is of minor concern, provided that the law stands and the state remains firm.”
In attempting to justify his unprecedented absence, Mayor Mamdani said that he has made his “views on the Israeli government abundantly clear.” Yet the Israel Day Parade is not a political rally for the Knesset, nor is it a blanket endorsement of every specific policy enacted by the government in Jerusalem.
Intellectually I know that tznius is a middah, an outlook, a shield that guards our inner selves from becoming diluted, but invariably, one of the first images that pops into my mind when I hear the word tznius is that young teenage girl on her first day of school.
It is certainly harder in the heat of summer, but it makes it even more meaningful to make a kiddush Hashem when people know how dedicated you are to Judaism.
With such acceptance, one can attain wisdom, since one who acknowledges the limits of his or her knowledge is more receptive to new ideas.
Tznius is not about limitation; it is about elevation. It is about recognizing that dignity creates strength and that there is beauty in refinement and self-control.
By Ariela Davis
I try to enforce tznius dress code for my students at school and it upsets me if any of my own daughters try to push the limits but… to be honest, tznius does take center stage in our education system far more than halacha affords it in Shulchan Aruch.
After winning a decisive military victory in Operation Epic Fury, the United States cannot afford to sign a flawed document just to secure a fleeting public relations win.
By Mendi Glik
Over the years, Cohen was in close contact with his uncle. He used to send him songs and consult with him. Shloime taught him that to sing is to pray.
Your child’s fears are very real and should not be ignored. That would only make them grow. However, bedtime is not the time to address those fears in a genuine matter.
Her positivity, energy, and incredible enthusiasm shine brightly. She is truly a light for all of us to emulate.
Having low fixed expenses early in life allows you to save aggressively and build a foundation that can compound for decades.
Particularly poignant was a copy I once owned that contained an inserted typed letter signed by Rabbi Shlomo Shleifer himself.
Six months is definitely enough time for a man and a woman to decide if at the very least, they want to commit to one another. It is certainly enough time to see if they are compatible, if their personalities align, if they have the same life goals and values, and if they have chemistry.
There are even bracketed additions embedded within the English translation, so as to clarify the meaning and also allow the language to flow more naturally.
By Alan Magill
I am a big believer in putting people in the spotlight with the strengths they have.
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
The buffer zone would be twice the size of the one Mamdani vetoed earlier this year.
Wells exemplifies a strain of liberal thought that underestimated the resilience of antisemitism and overestimated the protective power of universal ideals.
Dying with a weapon in defense of Jewish life in Israel is not the same as dying helplessly in exile. Perhaps both belong to the same Jewish story, but they tell different chapters.
By Maayan Zik
Tzom unlocks teshuvah because fasting is an act of self-denial that asserts that you are more than your appetites, which is the very foundation of repentance.
Fasting is an expression of closeness – achieved or desired. And when we think about it, isn't that really the point of all of our own fasts as well?
Jewish wisdom teaches that every person is made up of two parts: the physical self and the spiritual self, the body and the soul. They are meant to work together in harmony.
By Ruchi Koval
The first thing that pops into my head is “tzom kal,” because no one in America calls it a “tzom” – they call it a “fast day.”
It is incredibly easy to sit in a television studio thousands of miles away from the front lines of civilization and lecture a traumatized nation on the finer points of morality.
The question now is, at what point does the spread of the disease become so bad that the only solution is to flee.
Imagine what another decade of inaction would have produced.
In fact, it is an agency whose very mandate is structurally designed to prevent the resolution of the Palestinian refugee crisis.
By Ben Rothke
The topics are all real, important, and relevant in this significant work.
The story line struck a chord because I’ve known several couples who dated when very young and ended the shidduch (or were advised to end it), then married that very same person years later when the match was proposed again.
What survives here is not merely a mohel’s register, but an extraordinary ethnographic document of Jewish life in transition...
When people feel unfulfilled or discontented with their jobs or their lives, they might turn to food to suppress those feelings. Food becomes a focus instead of the boredom or the discontentment.
Throughout the narrative, Horowitz points out examples such as this, where things in her life could have been so much worse, and woven throughout the entire sefer is evidence of the incredible gratitude she has to Hashem for the many gifts she has received that help her navigate through a world without sound.
An inheritance is yours by default. It comes whether you asked for it or not. A heritage becomes valuable only when you claim it.
By Alan Zeitlin
The play presents Dahl as a man in physical pain, desperate to secure his marriage to his second wife, and increasingly cornered by public backlash.
It is important to remember that many teenagers experiment with smoking not because they are “bad kids,” but because they are curious, stressed, influenced by peers, or trying to feel more grown up.
By Mendi Glik
The album features rich orchestration, blending strings, brass, and piano with saxophone, clarinet, and electric guitar in the style of traditional chassidic music.
By Marc Gronich
Six Democratic hopefuls have emerged as contenders for the seat, which Nadler described to The Jewish Press as the safest Democratic seat in the country. “If my district ever went Republican then there isn’t a congressional district in the country that would be safe,” Nadler said.
Wealth should serve a purpose beyond individual comfort. Before personal consumption, the first portion of one’s resources should be directed toward higher purposes.
You put in time and effort and forged an emotional connection. Unfortunately, he might have been right there alongside you, but he has not arrived at the same place.
By Miriam Feit
It gives us strength to endure life’s storms and trials, Torah has imbued us with hope and determination; And, though, many other cultures existed and then perished – We – have the power – to persevere throughout the ages as a nation…
This week I continue with a discussion of six additional popular toys that were created by Jewish inventors.
The primary source underpinning the claims is the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, an organization with documented ties to Hamas and a history of laundering incendiary, unverified claims against Israel.
So much of what we accept as true about ourselves, about others, about the world, is based on appearance. It looks like what we know, so we assume it is what we know.
By Keshet Starr
Beyond the lack of post-meal dietary limitations, what is the deeper meaning behind dairy, especially on Shavuot? After all, this holiday is not only about the deliciousness of the cheesecake and that Insta-worthy cheese-pull on your lasagna.
How can something that is produced in a pure meat entity bring forth its opposite?
The pro of being milchig is that you don’t have to wait any time at all to eat fleishig. You just wash your mouth out with water and then have fleishig. Some actually wait thirty minutes.
By Hillel Fuld
The word milchig refers to dairy food as it pertains to mixing meat and milk, a prohibition we learn from the Torah commandment not to cook a calf in its mother’s milk.
As the subject of immigration is all over the news lately, this book is a clarion call for the acceptance of immigrants, couched in an accessible and relatable biography of Emma Lazarus.
If a state government can ignore its own founding charter to achieve preferred electoral outcomes, then constitutional protections are reduced to mere suggestions.
In his veto message, Mamdani attempted to wrap his decision in the noble cloth of the First Amendment and labor rights.
By Shlomo Greenwald and Joey Aron
The key question is not whether the conduct hides behind the veil of political language. As we mentioned, antisemitism almost always borrows the respectable vocabulary of its time. The question is whether Jewish students are being treated equally.
By Alan Zeitlin
“So, we are here today not to accommodate, not to give permission, not to bow our heads,” Louis-Klein said. “We are here today to say no. To say that we, as Jews and as Israelis, will not be erased from this society. We will not countenance a racist hate movement. We will not accept antizionism...
It’s hard to believe that bullying can occur in our schools, but unfortunately, bullying is a widespread problem that affects children of all religions, races, and ethnicities.
For some people, being wrong doesn’t register as a simple, everyday human experience. To them, it feels like a personal exposure. Instead of thinking, “I made a mistake,” their internal reaction is closer to, “This says something bad about me.”
Dr. Michael Kay said: I step into this role with humility, and with a deep desire to listen and learn – motivated by the conviction that we are witnessing an unparalleled resurgence in Jewish commitment under difficult circumstances, and that we have an obligation to nurture it.
By Irwin Cohen
Having a minyan with a siyum for firstborn guys like me Wednesday morning, erev Pesach, with a terrific breakfast was a big selling point for me, but the thing my old legs appreciated the most was there wasn't a single step for me to negotiate as everything was on the first floor.
Seventy-eight years ago this week, on May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was established. To celebrate this monumental event in Jewish history, here are some related medals from my personal collection.
