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Had the plaintiff brought two witnesses to testify in his favor, he would have won the case and judgment would have been entered against the defendant.
Hashem wants us to realize that we are not in control of Har Habayis, and this should disturb us.
Why does the huge, powerful horse submit to the will of the little, weak man?
Never refusing an assignment, Suzanne walked all over the city of Paris in an effort to find a hospital willing to risk treating Jews in hiding who needed urgent medical attention.
By Rena Reiser and Elisheva Blumberg
Swapping your body’s internal hunger/satiety signals for an external set of eating rules is bound to backfire.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
With no one there to stop them, or to intimidate the Israeli police into stopping them, visiting Jews were able – within reason – to offer up prayers this week on the Temple Mount for the first time in many centuries.
It was through Jackson’s leadership that the Nuremberg trials were organized; standards of evidence developed; rights of defendants defined; and prosecutorial action commenced.
The regimental forces were unable to defend Zion, and international agreements and alliances could not save Israel in a time of crisis.
Psychologists and journalists argue that in this new age of parenting, we are producing entitled and spoiled children.
By Pnina Baim
In my circles, manning the barbeque is traditionally a male job, but there is a lot more to a successful barbeque than dropping the meat onto the grill.
PETA has a lurid anti-shechita history, They claimed Rubashkin the way the animals were slaughtered at Agri rendered them non-kosher. Rabbinic authorities and major kashruth supervisors deemed Rubashkin to be of the highest kosher standards--yet PETA declared otherwise.
Why was it so hard for Lot to admit subordination to Avraham
The mindset of risking one's life for the cause can only be acquired once the civilian mindset of self-preservation is unlearned.
Young people today do not realize how bad anti-Semitism can be.
The groom was happy about the fulfillment of the pledge and the wedding ceremony was held. They danced and made merry the entire night.
By Rachel Weiss
How apt a reminder that this remorseful time will pass before we know it, and the next full moon will shed its light upon our universe on a joyful fifteenth of Av.
By Shimmy Blum
Can the opportunity to empower your business get any better?
Question: When reciting a berachah in English, does a person fulfill his obligation if he says “Hashem” instead of “L-rd” or “G-d”? Yosef
The NY Times and the Washington Post believe that Israel’s polices are to blame for “provoking” Arab hostility and violence. If you have any doubts, just read their headlines.
Yiddishkeit is indeed the shining key to unlocking the prison holding the addict. The reality is that Judaism is the gateway solution; it helps to transform one’s life by revealing the actual reason why we are here
We hear so much about the hopeless predicament of our assimilated brethren. Statistics show that our young people are indifferent to their faith and heritage and would not be unduly perturbed if, G-d forbid, Israel ceased to exist. I have never believed that to be true
To free a servant is a difficult transition for both parties. A lifetime of experience and relationship is ending. The shofar is sounded “so that they will realize that this is something standard throughout the land, and that all do so.”
The Rambam, however, was of the opinion that hearsay evidence is not sufficient to require the defendant to take the Shevuat Heiset oath of denial, even if it came from the plaintiff’s father.
Yet it appears that if the shogeg killer would daven, his prayers might be answered, and the kohen gadol would die. Why?
The search continues on in this way up the paternal family tree until it finally locates a living relative.
Anyway he gave it a try and got in the car and sure enough… the car started! He was surprised and asked the old man, how did you know what to do?
By Leah Stein
The MRI showed that our son had sustained a fractured skull and a double break in the arm that he had fallen on, it was truly a miracle. That arm had saved his life!
Ari took $200 out of his wallet. He said to two friends at the adjacent table: For the record, see that I'm lending Shalom $200.
Lehrhaus emerged as the brainchild of young scholars and writers who sought to fill a void in contemporary Orthodox discourse.
Operational Finale was the code name given by the Mossad to the mission of finding and capturing Eichmann after the Holocaust.
But to Orthodox summer residents, the zoning proposal, with its restrictive laws on building, is an effort to curb the growth of Jewish camps and communities.
Even during the renaissance of modern Hebrew poetry, virtually none of it was written by women.
After that traumatic summer, we sent her back to school. But it was a nerve-wracking time. We lived in trauma and fear.
Was their recent commitment strong enough to prevail against this dramatic test?
Susan David begins her book Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life with the following story: A well-regarded captain stood on the bridge of a British battleship watching the sun set across the sea. As the story goes, the captain was about to head below for dinner when a lookout […]
I took my favorite foods, cheese, walnuts and beets, to create the ultimate sweet and salty flatbread.
I will stop by your place of business tomorrow and you can give me some money at that time.
Dear Mordechai, How do I get the kids in camp to actually pay attention during learning groups? Learning Director, Camp Kol Turkey
The defense claimed Alavi was unaware that Assa had maintained ties to Iran in the years since the U.S. imposed sanctions on Iran in 1995.
Many people have told me that they wished they would have purchased life insurance when they were younger and in better health.
You can’t protest that you desire to be part of the Jewish community, that you espouse Jewish values, and at the same time marry a gentile woman and raise non-Jewish children. That, Mr. Feldman, is the definition of chutzpah.
A closer and deeper reading will show that what is important is not gender; rather, when it comes to Eretz Israel, the important variable, the fundamental thing, is what makes something “mine.”
Critics of Israel claim Israel’s security checkpoints “restrict” and “humiliate” Palestinian travelers. While that is open to debate there is one absolute fact: Checkpoints save lives.
The reason we can’t even see the temptation is that we are judging the generation according to our social climate.
Question: When reciting a berachah in English, does a person fulfill his obligation if he says “Hashem” instead of “L-rd” or “G-d”? Yosef
The Longest Mesechta? ‘We Shall Return To You…’ (Bava Basra 176b)
By Rina Levy
As your family came from France, it is likely that they were transported to Auschwitz and murdered there, he told us.
When does the obligation of mitzvah lekayem divrei ha’met apply, and how could it have improved Jill’s position?
It should, therefore, be deemed insufficient to oblige the defendant to take the Shevuat Heiset oath of denial.
The Gemara says that anyone who mourns the churban will merit seeing the nechama.
By dvora
How can we effectively treat chronic pain, without putting the lives, souls, and potential of those suffering from it at risk in the process?
Mr. Gefen approached Rabbi Dayan and related the story. Can I take from the store what I deserve? asked Mr. Gefen.
By Irwin Cohen
I followed Evers religiously and so I thought it was an act of sacrilege that Bunning wore Evers's uniform number while with the Tigers.
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.
The leading fighter for Jewish civil rights in Germany, he used his respect and renown to assist individual Jews and entire communities in disputes with the German authorities and he facilitated the revocation of many anti-Semitic laws.
By Rabbi Pesach Lerner and Rabbi Yaakov Menken
There is no natural demand for an alternative, mixed space at the Western Wall – from American Jews, much less Israelis. Contrary to the common narrative, it is creating such a space that would divide our nation.
“Your problem,” I said to to the Arab MK, “is that the Israeli Left has convinced you that this is not a Jewish state, but rather a state of all its citizens. And then in your naiveté, you were convinced that this is a state with no identity..."
By Sara Lehmann
Non-Orthodox denominations seem to have declared war on the status quo at a suspiciously convenient moment, their uproar coming at a time of declining identification with Judaism and Israel throughout their ranks.
To Jew-haters, any inconsistency is permissible. What makes this hard for many Jews to understand is that it doesn’t conform to their worldview, in which enemies are on the right and allies are on the left.
But there is another crucial element in this episode that must also be noted.
By Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
Despite owning some of the important businesses in town, the Jews of Nyack continued to remain a small minority, and in each high school graduating class there was only a handful of Jewish students.
There are around 100,000 Israelis here. We call it the second Israel. There are chummus shops and falafel shops – you feel very much at home. It’s like a huge kibbutz.
By Rhona Lewis
I am done with my little bit of research and I marvel. Not so very long ago Muslim Arabs were willing to risk their lives to save Jews.
If we want to feel good about our careers, our relationships, and ourselves at the end of the day, week, or year, we need to assess what our priorities are and then schedule them into our weeks.
Shabbos Bowls just might change the way you prepare for Shabbos.
By Sandy Eller
Knowing that there was only one way to get what she wanted, Yonit set out to design it.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
As Minister Bennett explained, "The bill is a way to prevent a future situation in which a temporary majority such as existed under Olmert or Barak would bring about the division of Jerusalem, the heart of the Jewish Nation." Is this threat not reason enough to support the bill?
Please read this article and take note: Over the past week several more young men and women from the greater community have died of suspected overdoses. They are lost forever to their families, to the community, to the world.
The inevitable conclusion of the study was that holding back, delaying gratification, leads to a more stable and positive life.
It appeared that she and her husband were getting a divorce and a sum of money was in dispute, which she now turned over to the rav for safekeeping.
Unfortunately, it has become increasingly difficult for people to afford gastrointestinal healthcare.
Question: When reciting a berachah in English, does a person fulfill his obligation if he says “Hashem” instead of “L-rd” or “G-d”? Yosef
Seeing the honor afforded a gentile king or queen provides us with a tangible example of what is in store for us.
Are they disparate events that coincidentally all occurred on the same day or do they perhaps share a common denominator?
August 21, 2026 
