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Israel’s lawmakers built a biometric database that no other free country dares propose to its citizens. It is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist and will become a severe security problem when hacked
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Judaism survives due to Divine Providence and the foresight of Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai who resisted cognitive breakdown, created solutions for tomorrow's problems, who did not seek refuge in the irrational, and who quietly built the Jewish future.
By Yaffa Ganz
I'm still not sure which kid we'll be going to when, but instead of unpacking dishes, we're packing a suitcase.
No, I will not go home until this house is repaired and made fit for people to live in. Are these people any worse than me?
Some people object to the practice of invented spelling, arguing that it produces bad habits that can be carried over into adulthood.
We still have an inner voice that silently screams, It's just not fair!
An Implacable Foe ‘Therefore Those Who Speak In Parables Say…’ (Bava Basra 78b)
By Rhona Lewis
After seventy years of silence, for the first time, we are actually hearing songs sung by those subjected to unspeakable cruelty.
Their constant favoring of our family only breeds jealousy and hostility.
Oh, to live a life of study and prayer…Oh, how un-Jewish. Parshat Tzav opens with a discussion of 2 mitzvot that, instruct the kohanim to, basically, “take out the trash.”
Available data indicates more individuals than ever are opting out of religious observance. It’s not that they don’t want to belong – they want to belong to something that has more meaning for them
By Sara Lehmann
In an era when Israel has become the new symbol of Jews and Judaism, Israel bashing has replaced Jew bashing. Instead of burning the Torah and other Jewish texts, Israeli flags are now put to the torch
Whoever is running PR for the Palestinians really understands branding. How else to explain why the word “occupation” applies to them exclusively? In the end, branding won’t get them anywhere.
If the chametz has already been legally nullified and physically burned, so that it is neither owned nor possessed by a Jew, why is it necessary to sell it to a non‑Jew?
The mitzvah is called sippur yetzias Mitzrayim – telling the story of how Hashem took us out of Egypt. Why is there an emphasis on the telling?
Mr. Leiner checked the calendar, and saw that April 13 came out on Chol HaMoed. I was considering taking off that day, Mr. Leiner told his boss.
Question: Why do we sell our chametz. Wouldn’t it be simpler to just dispose of it? Why go through this charade every year? Malka Berg
In all of these situations, the person volunteering the admission is exempt from any payment.
He feels joy in his heart as he revels in the abundance of his bumper crop. And then he looks out at his neighbor’s field. Meager. Undergrown. Spotty.
Instead of commending this righteous individual for his proper ethical standards, he has been attacked by the left wing media!
This tragedy was in the forefront of my mind as my family and I wended our way, the week before Pesach, from Har Nof, Jerusalem to Sha’ar Yeshuv.
Rabbi Lichtenstein’s analysis of the events, especially the dialogues between them, serves as a lesson for our people’s leaders to read, and emulate in the many years to come.
Our sages write that one of the reasons the second Beit Hamikdash was destroyed was because of blind hatred.
Rabbi Blech projects this example of optimism as a most important component to the liberation of the Exodus.
During World War II he served as a member of the draft board for the Lower East Side.
We’re a halachic publisher. But in our hashkafa, Zionism is important, the state of Israel is important, and engaging the world is important.
While the Supreme Court recently limited the reach of that requirement, the broader question remains.
This was not necessarily illegal on Ms. Rice’s part, since she was legally entitled to see the material in her official capacity.
Scholars still debate whether he yielded to pressure from his publisher or to pressure from British politicians pursuing a policy of appeasement with Hitler’s Germany.
By Rhona Lewis
Being in prison was hard, but I'm grateful for it because it saved my life.
Though I loved cooking, I did it with a heavy heart as I continuously worried about what I should be cleaning.
Hypocritically, anti-Israel academics wish to freely pontificate on Israel's many "defects" but don't like to be inconvenienced by being challenged on those biased, and intellectually dishonest, views
Our sages say that, unlike Elul and Tishrei, in which the teshuvah (repentance) process takes a long period of time, in Nissan we are able to change our course in an instant. Let's grab this chance!
Jordan "has rejected" the US request for the extradition of Tamimi. So Jordan’s “pro-American” regime continues to shelter Tamimi. And the Trump administration acts as if it can't do anything about it other than issue gently worded press releases.
By Alan Magill
I asked him what he wanted to do when he got out. He said he would really love to go to college, something that had eluded him in his youth.
Shifrah and Puah were on a very high spiritual level – obviously the type of women who would not hesitate to follow the way of the Torah, and to sacrifice their own lives for the sake of other Jews.
...Israel is a beacon of light in a sea of Islamic darkness...
Kinesthetic learning is not for everyone. In fact, for some it can be a more difficult form.
After living as slaves for so many years, we could now be transformed into avdei Hashem - Hashem's slaves.
We have lost the idea of what it is to give ourselves to Hashem with totality and completeness.
When working with garlic, a great shortcut I discovered in my local supermarket is fresh, peeled, whole cloves. It’s beyond worth spending the extra buck.
Making people laugh and telling funny stories won't necessarily earn you a place in heaven. But you know what will? Finding people who have forgotten how to laugh or perhaps feel they will never laugh again – and making them laugh.
Often, those purporting to speak for Judaism and Jews take positions antithetical to Torah. The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) was created to provide Torah true positions on contemporary issues.
The reason the defendant must pay the money or return the item if he admits that he borrowed the money, stole it, or had something of value deposited with him but does not know whether he repaid the money or gave the item back, is as follows.
Question: Must one spend great sums of money and invest much effort in making one’s home kosher for Passover? Not all of us have unlimited funds. Anonymous
Must A Typical Sale Be Generous? ‘A Seller Sells Generously’ (Bava Basra 71a)
Rebbetzin Jungreis, a”h, continues her discussion of Jewish homes-the pain and tragedy in some; the joy and love in others. This week, the Rebbetzin focuses on the love of Jewish mothers.
So am I deserving of honor? The body I occupy sure is; just look at what it can do. But I am that little guy inside – small, insignificant, unimportant.
By Ann Goldberg
But, that morning my cold had developed into something far worse and I just knew I wasn’t going to get to the bris.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Why should unintentional sins require atonement at all? What guilt is involved? Had the offender known he would not have done what he did. Why then does he have to undergo a process of atonement?
Glass cannot be kashered or used at all on Pesach because it is made of sand and is halachically considered earthenware.
Mr. Taub tried a few more times to contact Benjy, but was unsuccessful.
How can we say that we are waiting for Mashiach in any month other than Nissan?
Now approaching the program’s 67th year, the National Jewish Book Awards celebrate Jewish literary achievement in a wide range of genres and form, honoring writers in 20 different categories each year.
Rabbi Cohen was raised in holiness by the original codifier of some of Rav Kook’s writings when Rav Kook was still alive.
Even the very physicality of the seder participant is given narrative space so as to give the participant the rational for the physical choreography of the seder night’s ‘program’.
On the one hand, he was not a Zionist in the sense of supporting Eretz Yisrael as a Jewish state and he publicly proclaimed that he was not a political Zionist.
By Sandy Eller
The organization has just seven paid employees but scores of volunteers who agree to a minimum three-year commitment with IDFWO.
Israel’s incomparable technological capacity would be allowed to take Israel, unfettered, anywhere it led.
Our family and friends became contemporary versions of the twelve tribes joined by kinship, common faith, and mutual hopes and dreams.
Of course, these moments should also be related to your topic of expertise and should not simply be there for the shock effect!
I sense more and more people with strong Torah background who are bothered by questions of the mission of the Jew and the Torah's relationship to the larger world.
As a response to the recent school cancellations for snow days, let schools stay open as often as possible, leave it to the discretion of parents whether it’s too difficult or dangerous to come in?
When Shammai heard these words he was deeply hurt and was sure that the man had come only to offend and mock him.
There’s little doubt that Americans are more deeply divided than they’ve been in living memory as traditional left-right debates have stopped being exchanges of ideas and become screaming matches
By Rachel Weiss
The comfort and chizuk these wives offered their husbands, uplifting their morale, did not escape our all-seeing Father in heaven.
How you feel is up to you.
Anyone from any tribe can rise to greatness so long as he or she has the vision, drive, and talent.
Other nations were created through conquest and an amalgamation of peoples. We, the Jewish people, were born in the cradle of family, Abraham and Sarah, created our very first home. Thia is why the epidemic of splintered families is an epic tragedy.
Accordingly, from time immemorial it was the Divine plan that a segment of human society would become the symbolic emblem of “acceptance” – and the segment God chose is the Jewish people.
The ongoing legal saga of whether Dr. Simcha Goldman could wear his yarmulke while serving in the US Air Force
Remember that each Jewish home is a mikdash me’at – a mini-sanctuary. Is this not reason enough to turn our attention – and our behavior – to the needs of our homes and our wives?
In recognition of the good that was performed in the past we reward this dog with the meat of the animal that he did not protect.
I can't accept that, said Mr. Mann. If you are not willing to honor the contract, we need to take up the issue in beis din.
Question: Why there are four special Torah readings between Purim and Pesach? Also, why do we call each of those four Shabbatot by a special name, e.g., Shabbat Shekalim, Shabbat Zachor etc.? Additionally how did the division of weekly parshiyot we read every Shabbat come about? Celia Gluck
Hung Out To Dry ‘A Roof With A Parapet 10 Tefachim High Is Not Included’ (Bava Basra 63b-64a)
While this is a beautiful illustration of the giving nature of a tzaddik, there is as subtle message here: the man stole a spoon from the Chofetz Chaim. How was that possible?
If chametz became mixed with non-chametz on Pesach, the mixture is prohibited on Pesach even if the ratio of the permitted non‑chametz to the forbidden chametz is 1,000 to 1.
By Naama Klein
Our first six children had been born in the Holy Land, but ironically every one of them married and set up home in the United States.
The UN condemns Israel on a constant basis for crimes it has not committed, and continually attempts to recognize the Palestinian claim to the land (with the exception to the Trump administration as we will shortly discuss).
So too a person who admits he stole part of the money claimed, or who is confronted by only one witness who testifies to the theft, remains eligible to take an oath.
Our extended family, although not a very orthodox group, was nevertheless totally Jewish in identity and heritage…
July 10, 2026 
