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The initiative was established to express profound gratitude to the community of scholars who balance intensive high-level Torah study with the rigors of military service.
This arc – frank acknowledgment of failure, followed by unconditional reaffirmation – is not incidental to the haftarah. In truth, it is one reason the whole institution of the haftarah exists.
Back in 1960 bibliography, Yaakov Ya’ari made the first attempt to actually count how many times Jews have published versions of the Passover Haggada, and he came up with an incredible 2,717 different editions.
Sheps comments at the beginning of the Haggadah that we are all teachers on Seder night and we are all students.
There are really two kinds of religious life. The first is built out of inspiration... This second life is not built out of inspiration. It is built out of return.
I’ve always been struck by that phrase “nesa liban,” “their hearts lifted them.” There is something deeply human in it, a quiet rising of the soul toward purpose.
Ashrei is a very important prayer, and the most important pasuk in it is: “Poseiach es yadecha (You) open Your hand and satisfy each living thing according to its need.”
By contrast, the more nebulous offense of fraud and breach of trust, which sits at the heart of the charges in Cases 1000 and 2000, has long been criticized by legal scholars for its vagueness.
From a pro‑Israel standpoint, the danger is not only that Gaza has turned the party leftward; it is that the moral and political reflex to stand with Israel under fire has been replaced by a posture of suspicion, apology, and punishment.
Carlson may have inadvertently done more for Chabad fundraising than any giving-day campaign.
When it comes to selling real estate during war, patience suddenly becomes a national virtue.
Alongside true nuclear explosives, there is also the radiological category – dirty bombs or radiological dispersal devices. Iran’s 60‑percent uranium could be fashioned into several such weapons, dispersing uranium dust or fragments over a city with conventional explosives.
Iran’s enemies feared not open confrontation, but stalling tactics. An agreement that would relieve pressure, allow Iran to regroup, and perhaps wait for a weaker American administration in a few years. From a cold political perspective, buying time was the obvious move.
That outside-the-pale groups Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow would attack Israel and America for bombing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s regime should come as no surprise.
By Alan Zeitlin
Even more bizarre is that both The New York Times and The Washington Post referred to Khamenei as avuncular. Normal people rarely use that word. I’ve heard it uttered less than 10 times in my life.
By Avi Ciment
If we only look through life seeing the bad without bringing into account G-d’s infinite goodness, then our perception and understanding of life and of G-d – not to mention our ability to grow – is limited.
The European response underscores something deeper about NATO’s structure. Its collective‑defense clause – Article 5, so often invoked as sacred text – is riddled with escape hatches.
Yet a motley crew on the left and right are not happy about the idea that national decline is a choice the president firmly rejects.
It is the only book in Tanach where G-d’s name does not appear. There is no open miracle, no prophecy, no explicit divine intervention.
On Tisha B’Av, Rav Moshe would wear a threadbare garment that was beginning to tear. One could see the grief in his eyes and his longing for the yeshuah with all of his soul.
Clothes do not make the man, but they frame the role he occupies.
The Jews of Shushan did not change their location. They changed the way they carried their covenant. For a moment, they stopped guarding it and started living it.
The removal of Maduro, who personally anchored the Iran–Venezuela axis and defended Hezbollah’s presence, abruptly deprives Iran of a loyal partner at the apex of this system and signals to other leaders in the region that acting as a host for Iranian and Hezbollah activities can end in arrest, indictment and loss of power.
This sort of technology unlocks immense potential in many fields – for its ability to increase efficiency, to handle menial tasks, and even shortcut the difficult work of creative synthesis, what we would call chiddush. It is no wonder then that the public has been engaged in a frenzied adoption of AI in nearly every field of activity.
Esther believes in herself, not because she knows she’s externally beautiful or talented or popular, but because she knows that G-d believes in her.
By Alan Zeitlin
Carlson has great skill in magnifying and minimizing what he wants to, and is a charismatic con-artist who is unlikely to be discredited by a kind man who cares about decorum.
By Alan Zeitlin
Carlson has great skill in magnifying and minimizing what he wants to, and is a charismatic con-artist who is unlikely to be discredited by a kind man who cares about decorum.
Liu, Hughes, and the other USA Olympians give me hope that despite our differences, we remain strong; we remain winners.
Liu, Hughes, and the other USA Olympians give me hope that despite our differences, we remain strong; we remain winners.
Though Mordechai received no prophecy regarding the correct course of action – hence the term perhaps – this does not prevent him from issuing clear directives to Esther. He reflects on the situation and discerns what action Hashem expects from both of them.
In the beginning, we were summer friends. Possibly we exchanged a letter or two during the year, but when summer came, we embraced each other, so happy to be together again.
There is a categorical difference between criticizing a government and singling out the world’s only Jewish state for obsessive denunciation while displaying indifference toward, or even apologetics for, far graver abuses elsewhere.
Distinct. Individuals. Representing tribes. But in Terumah, at the moment of donation, before they are placed and named in detail, they are called something else. Avnei miluim. Stones defined not by their brilliance, but by their necessity.
By Miriam Feit
Talking about miracles – I can definitely say: I hope for a special miracle on this Purim day!
The Mishkan gives Bnei Yisrael predictability through clear instructions, agency through voluntary offerings, collaboration through shared labor, embodiment through materials and craft, and containment through a defined sacred space. It is the Torah’s first blueprint for communal healing.
Our calling is not merely to take in and reflect surrounding culture, but rather to shape it, to serve as a light unto the nations by embodying and promulgating the Torah’s Divine values.
When Israel is viewed as the outcome of national liberation and survival after catastrophe, support feels natural. When Israel is cast primarily as an aggressor or colonial anomaly, support must be defended constantly.
By Alan Zeitlin
Canadian-Israeli David Greaves, president of the Israeli Olympic Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, told The Jewish Press: It was shameful and careless and is the reason why Jews are unsafe in the streets of many places around the world. Imagine the uproar if he did that to an athlete from any other nation.
Priesthood is hereditary, only allotted to a few individuals. Holiness, by contrast, is applicable to, and attainable by, each of us.
By Alan Zeitlin
Qatar has already spent an estimated $6.5 billion to brainwash college students to hate America and Israel, while Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens seek to make Christians feel that support for Israel is a yogurt that has now soured.
A sizable number of Israel’s supporters still call themselves Zionists. That includes many people who will never seriously consider making aliyah, let alone do it.
By Mendi Glik
At age six, Harris started to play the violin. His parents sent him to music school because his uncle had given him a violin, and he joined the school orchestra, which he played in for five years.
The Torah’s language about the ger, the yatom, and the almanah is not sentimental; it is structural. These identities are not about eliciting pity but about embedding protection into the very framework of halacha.
Because Mishpatim is the Torah code designed for living in the Land of Israel. Courts, damages, property law, social responsibility – these are not abstract ethics. They assume land, sovereignty, and society
The Torah deliberately places civil law alongside the drama of revelation. At the very moment when heaven meets earth – amid thunder, lightning, and awe – the Torah turns our attention toward human responsibility: how society is ordered, how power is restrained, and how justice is preserved.
At this point, describing the ensuing campaign as mere bias is no longer plausible. What has emerged over decades is an institutional war on Jewish sovereignty.
The speech sparked excitement and inspiration. It provided something rare: a vision of Jewish strength rather than just a lamentation about the hatred Jews face.
The Jewish people did thank Hashem, but they waited. They waited for the sea to split, for the danger to pass, for the story to reach its resolution. And only then, in a powerful, collective, composed moment, they sang. It was magnificent. It was holy. It was exactly right.
By Miriam Feit
So much hatred and evil, deception and lies – Brainwashing…so many people fail to realize.
The Israelites have survived slavery, survived the plagues, survived the waters closing behind them. But survival is not the same as readiness. Freedom does not erase the patterns that oppression carves into the mind and heart. The Torah does not rush past this truth; it lingers in it.
Ten years is too long. Even one day is too long. For anyone who lost a rebbe, this is not hard to understand. The loss is simply irreplaceable.
By Alan Zeitlin
The 6’8” player, who weighs about 228 pounds and is nicknamed “Turbo,” previously starred for Maccabi Tel Aviv and was the Israeli Premier League MVP in the 2019-20 season – the third year in a row he helped his team win the championship.
What if the time we spend caring for our parents is not deducted from our lifespan but added to it? What if G-d is granting us additional years precisely for this purpose?
Since the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, a line has been drawn – between those who unequivocally condemn terrorism and those who equivocate.
Liberal media in the West mostly treated this not as a revolt against Islamist rule but as an “economic protest,” a spasm of hardship and inflation, as if the central fact – that millions of Muslims were openly rejecting political Islam – was too impolite to honestly report.
A democracy that bans some anti-system actors while indulging others ceases to defend principle and begins to enforce raw political preference.
Is it permissible to pressure someone to sell property they do not want to sell? May one try to obtain a job or position already held by another?
Chazal teach us that tree planting is the best way to emulate and draw close to G-d (V”R 25:3). Hashem planted trees when He created the world, and we are commanded to do so upon entering Eretz Yisrael.
There’s a reason the man arrives before the Aseres HaDibros. A people who have only known extraction cannot receive law until they first learn sufficiency.
By Alan Magill
I didn’t want her to hurt herself, but sometimes it hurts more to be denied opportunities for enjoyable, meaningful experiences.
Size matters, more than even many of Israel’s friends and supporters appreciate. To describe Israel as a small country is to understate the issue. The Jewish State is about the same size as the state of New Jersey. The West Bank is a little smaller than Delaware. Gaza is roughly twice the size of Washington, D.C.
The night of the event, when the protestors marching toward Glick’s home realized it had been moved, they marched toward the shul, eventually meeting a group of Jews gathered in the shul parking lot. That’s when things escalated.
A friend of mine recently posted a comment on a WhatsApp group about the cost of Orthodox life. Well, eight hours later the responses were still flooding in. Obviously, cost is something that people have very strong opinions about. And a lot of anxiety. The statistics bear this out. Every time we have asked […]
What has always struck me is that the Torah does not erase the plagues. It does not soften them. It does not pretend that the suffering did not occur. Instead, it asks us to hold the full truth...
A lecturer defending Israel isn’t seen as an opponent to be debated but a blasphemer to be silenced or prevented from speaking in the first place, even violently, if necessary.
Mitzvos form the basis of our relationship with Hashem; they are our bread and butter. Rabbi Weber’s sefer is intended to help us strengthen our relationship with Hashem by explaining each mitzvah based on the Chumash.
By Ruthie Blum
Predictably, the tragedy has become yet another bone of political and cultural contention, since the people involved are charedim. Never mind that disasters of all kinds have occurred in both licensed and unlicensed daycare centers, in various socioeconomic areas with no particular religious affiliation.
The idea of the book is to show exactly how to identify and then run a business in the field of your dreams. I show readers, based on my own experience as an entrepreneur, how they can master the mindsets and skill sets of successful small businesspeople.
There is no ambiguity here. No mistranslation. No context that softens the meaning. This is not the rhetoric of a partner for peace or the language of a movement committed to a peaceful future. It is a declaration of intent – one that mirrors, almost perfectly, the genocidal aims openly proclaimed by Hamas.
Geulah is not an escape; it is a return. It is the moment when a person remembers who they are and who they were meant to be.
The habits that ordered his own days were the same ones he brought to communal decision-making.
Instead of establishing a state commission of inquiry under the existing legal framework, one in which the president of the Supreme Court appoints the commissioners and defines their independence, the government has opted for a politically constituted body.
Like their Cold War predecessors who were stunned by the sudden Soviet crackup, the liberal intellectual class is imprisoned by a narrative that rules out the possibility of Islamist regime change.
Everyone is elderly, and most have gray hair, but their eyes shine, especially when they speak of their past.
The cry of Bnei Yisrael is the first act of geulah. No armies, no influence, and still the world turns. The cry pierces the heavens, awakens, and sets redemption in motion.
There is an even more remarkable – and troubling – fact than the election of a 34-year-old radical left-wing Assemblyman with no executive experience to manage America’s greatest city. According to exit polls, Mamdani, an avatar of the far-left Democratic Socialists of America, received roughly one-third of the Jewish vote.
The problem isn’t that those in need aren’t reaching out to The Laptop Project. It’s that the organization simply doesn’t have enough devices to give away. We have a constant waitlist that never seems to drop below 50 people, said Luchins.
By Nathan Lewin
Hundreds will – or should – write about the astounding accomplishments of Julie Berman during his life.
Thanks to the efforts and sacrifices of generations, and with some caveats, a realistic conduct of its affairs, the Jewish state today stands as the military and economic superior of all its rivals, and therefore as a worthwhile and powerful ally in the eyes of those of its neighbors not hostile to it for religious or ideological reasons.
Their aim isn’t to reduce Israel from the size of New Jersey to that of Rhode Island, say, but to cut the state out of the Middle East entirely.
While I do not know what is truly the biggest issue facing Klal Yisrael – what about the intermarriage and apathy consuming the majority of American Jews, the crisis between charedim and the rest of Israeli society, or the frightening rise of antisemitism on both the right and the left? – one cannot deny the corrosive impact of this financial culture.
In my view, far too many valuable resources and an extensive amount of energy were spent in generating votes for the American portion of the World Zionist Congress elections. And I say this as a delegate to a previous congress.
Now that our grandson is three, it’s easier – not totally possible, but easier – to imagine him as the beneficiary of our legacy. Often, though, it is impossible to imagine myself as the guardian of a legacy since I am still processing the legacy that has been left to me.
For generations, this posture helped shape a steady religious orientation: we focus on the religious obligations of the here and now – Torah, mitzvot, and moral improvement – while the timing of Mashiach and the ultimate reading of history are left to Hakadosh Baruch Hu – Ha-shamayim shamayim la-Hashem, ve-ha’aretz natan li-vnei adam.
By Irwin Cohen
Lucky for us Jews, Tisch will stay on in her current title under Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. She wants to add 5,000 police officers, to beef up the force from the current 35,000 to 40,000.
If we want to understand what it means to join Yehudah and Yosef – two lineages, two visions of leadership – we must also look at the women who stand at their thresholds. Not only the unnamed daughters who entered Mitzrayim, but also the named women whose faith and devotion shaped the legacy and carried it forward.
Many American rabbis and other leaders at the time encouraged people to pray for Israel, to pay for Israel, and even to make aliyah, but relatively few did more than preaching, praying, and donating.
The EU–Israel Association Agreement of 2000 cast the Jewish state as a close political and economic counterpart. Over time, EU institutions subordinated that relationship to backing the Palestinian cause.
A celebrity video that reassures – and misleads – New York’s Jewish community.
The Bondi Beach shooting was the worst terror attack in Australia’s history, and it was also the deadliest terror attack against Jews since October 7. Still, for those who have been studying the sharp rise of antisemitism in Australia over the last two years, the attack wasn’t entirely shocking.
By Moshe Gantz and Joseph Miller
When tefillin are purchased from a reputable source and treated properly, most remain kosher for many years. In the experience of many sofrim, most invalidations come from pairs that were never properly made to begin with.
Ritual is often mistaken for routine. Something done out of habit, inherited without thought. But in times of fear, ritual becomes something else entirely. It becomes resistance. It becomes a declaration of presence.
Just as we gradually educate our children in bite-size pieces of knowledge and wisdom as they develop through life and before they come of age, so too did G-d bring this holy light into this lower realm before its time.
It is far too soon to truly process or respond to such a heinous crime. But anyone with a sensitive soul cannot avoid the question that rises unbidden in the heart. How do we light candles, gather with family, sing songs of gratitude, spin the dreidel, and eat latkes in the shadow of such devastating loss and tragedy?
By Aryeh Werth
Surveillance footage captured by aircraft showed the suspects unloading materials from vehicles and arranging bomb-making components on folding tables beneath a tent.
By Eve Glover
She encourages people who want to try something new and different to make classic potato latkes and add fun and exotic toppings, such as black caviar, scallions, or a teriyaki drizzle.
By Joshua Marks
At least 27 victims were hospitalized, New South Wales Health said on Monday, including six people in critical condition, six in critical but stable condition, and 13 in stable condition. At least 40 people were injured overall in the attack, according to police.
The deployment is being coordinated from Israel as the team departs Ben Gurion Airport en route to Sydney. Zaka officials said responders will provide both technical assistance and spiritual support to local communities grappling with the aftermath of the attack.
September 25, 2026 
