יום ראשון, י׳ אלול תשפ״וSunday, August 23, 2026
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By Leslie Bell
The German advance was so rapid that within a short time they found themselves prisoners in the Stolpce ghetto.
Young children, who in another time and place would have had nothing more serious to contemplate than their schoolwork, grew all too familiar with death as a daily occurrence.
Lapid said negotiations with the Palestinians would need to be conducted “in very slow stages.” How slow does he envision the process? “15-20 years, the main element of which is security arrangements”
No one could know how Trump would govern, but it was certain Hillary would govern as a leftist. I believe that another 4 years of left-wing rule would mean the end of America as it was founded to be
Free speech does not permit depriving others of their free speech rights – through disruptions, heckling, or other tactics intended to suppress and/or eliminate the speech of those with opposing views
Gere was right – only not quite in the way he intended. It was in fact, a Jew attacked by an Arab mob. Sometimes, reality clashes with the fantasy world of Hollywood.
To be a Jew is to know how to pray but, alas, it seems most Jews turn to everyone and everything but our Heavenly Father. I would like to offer some practical suggestions to help us grow in prayer
Next year, instead of sitting at home and chewing on matzah that merely symbolizes the Korban Pesach, we will joyously sit in area surrounding the Temple Mount, eating our roasted sacrificial lamb.
This casual observation will give you the ability to easily understand when something is wrong during the unavoidable social struggle.
Rabbi Nechunia’s Prayer ‘ Even So, An Actual Incident Is Greater’ (Bava Basra 83a)
By Naama Klein
At this point I am reasonably happy that he returns home eventually and is still semi-coherent (at least some of the time).
After a couple of hours in the kitchen, the meat was on the fire, the chicken in the oven, and some kugels already out on the table.
In order for an admission of a debt or for the forgiveness of a debt to be effective, it must be accompanied by some overt manifestation of serious intent.
Question: My friends are getting married on Rosh Chodesh Sivan. I tried to convince them to do otherwise, as many people have a minhag not to attend weddings until three days before Shavuot. They told me they spoke to rabbis who allowed it. Is this right? May I attend? Name Withheld By Request
On Chol HaMoed some work is prohibited and some is permitted. According to some opinions, the work prohibition is biblical; according to others, it’s rabbinical.
He didn’t choose to be kind. He didn’t want to feel the pain of others. In fact, he tried his best to squelch this sensitivity.
It can be argued that anti Semites perceived Obama’s policies as supportive of their own views.
By Irwin Cohen
Admittedly, I took a liking to and saw a lot of the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals, who share the new spring training facility.
Many young Jewish soldiers who were away from home for the first time found that attending a Seder provided an important emotional link to familiar traditions of home and family.
What a lot of people don’t know, though, is that Israel used a very sophisticated cyber weapon to basically blind Syrian radar systems [during its aerial raid on the facility].
We did not simply recount what occurred to our forefathers three thousand years ago.
By Libi Astaire
The house is clean. The last bit of chametz has been burned. What happens next?
God showcased open miracles in our liberation from Mitzrayim and what followed thereafter in order to embed a piercing belief in our souls that opened the gates to a later appreciation of ALL miracles.
I do not consider myself a hero. I only did my duty as a human being toward people who were persecuted and tortured.
With all the talk today about immigration, we asked some ofour rabbanim to answer the following question...
By Sandy Eller
Whether you decide to go formal and proper or playful and laid back, just remember that Pesach is all about transmitting a powerful legacy from one generation to the next.
Every year it is incumbent upon us to recount the Passover story. But it is not only our collective history as recorded in the Haggadah we recall, we also have our own personal associations with Pesach
Raising my son Menny for 4 years now has been an extraordinary blessing and incredible experience. He’s black and wears his yarmulke proudly. Our Jewish community and fellow Montanans embrace him unconditionally--He’s not that “black boy” and I’m not that “adoptive father”; they just see us as a family.
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?
August 21, 2026 
