B’Shetzef – He’s Just Turned Around
For years there was a controversy in Israel about the date of Yom HaShoah. The suggestion was for it to be on the day that the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising started.
Q & A: Steps Back At Amidah’s Conclusion
Question: I read with much interest your Q & A columns, especially those that relate to tefillah. I have a related question: In shul I’ve noticed that at the conclusion of the Shemoneh Esrei, some people take three steps backward but then they do not take the three steps forward as required. Is this an actual sanctioned practice?
Zelig Aronson
Via E-mail
The Bitachon Blueprint (Part IX)
The people who love or care about us are the ones we affect most deeply. For someone who feels they have so little control, this becomes the last lifeline - the only power they have left to hold onto.
Focusing On The Pesach In Our Relationships
We ate matzah – boom! We received an injection of faith for the entire year. This dose of faith is absorbed into our bodies and souls. It doesn’t matter how we felt. Consciously or unconsciously, we have been transformed by this experience.
Frum Faces Of Aliyah: The Ross Family – From Chicago To Ramat Beit Shemesh...
Two and a half years into our aliyah, our family (children and adults) have made new friends. We’ve held onto some non-Israeli habits like buying American cereal, playing baseball, flag football, and ice hockey (in Netanya) but are also slowly adapting to Israeli culture.
From Strength To Strength: Israel’s ‘Oz’ Birthday
Of course, Hashem wants us to fight for ourselves and blesses us with the physical strength and heavenly assistance we need. We see this at the end of Parshat Beshalach in the wake of Amalek’s attack.
Not The Same
It is so exciting that you have met someone that you are contemplating a future with. But with Pesach and the spotlight on minhagim and customs, you now see your differences in a new light. You worry that this will be an adjustment you might never be ready for and may be too much to take on.
Glory In The Greatness Of The Great
Aharon was silent out of pride in his sons.
No Excuses
Why was it preferable, then, for Hashem to penalize Nadav and Avihu for their wrongdoing on this very special day during the chanukas hamishkan when it certainly detracted from the happiness of all the people gathered?
Then Vs. Now
Are the players better today? They are certainly bigger and the pitchers can throw harder.
Food For Thought
After the Flood, G-d gave humans permission to eat meat, but this was a concession, as if to say: Kill if you must, but let it be animals, not other humans, that you kill.
The Official Postcards Of The Thirteenth Through Eighteenth Congresses
Specially produced beautiful and deeply poignant official postcards were issued for all of the pre-Israel Zionist Congresses (all Congresses after 1948 were held in Jerusalem).
NYS AG James’s Mortgage Caper: More Than Meets The Eye
She did legal somersaults in order to conjure up a patchwork of violations of law on Trump’s part in applying for loans, which virtually all experts opined were arguably accurate, at any rate harmless and victimless, and knowingly accepted by the lending institutions themselves.
Hate Speech And The Second American Revolution
Our history is rewritten in distorted fashion; our statues are torn down; the centrality of Judeo-Christian ethics in our society is denied; victimizers are recast as victims and victims as oppressors.
Senator Simcha Felder Bids Fond Farewell To The State Senate, As Special Election Looms
Felder is beginning his second stint on the New York City Council, where he served for eight years from January 2002 to February 2010. Last month, on March 25, he won the seat with more than 81 percent of the vote.
Spare The Rod, Spoil The Mitzvah? The Talmud’s Take On Tough Love
There are instances in the Gemara where, though corporal punishment is accepted as a practice, there is a disapproving response when it is done unfairly or excessively...
Word Prompt – CROWS – Rachel Wizenfeld
When people or publications can't differentiate between evil and the fighting back against it, then there really is no point in engaging in conversation.
Word Prompt – CROWS – Jordana Baruchov
In Jewish thought, the raven/crow represents transformation, change, and the hard-earned wisdom that comes from going through darkness.
Word Prompt – CROWS – Ita Yankovich
In an attempt to respond to this quirky Word Prompt word, I googled crows and I learned something fascinating. There is actual meaning behind those annoying shrills and shrieks.
Word Prompt – CROWS – Sarah Pachter
Sometimes in life we are like the raven, tested by Hashem in areas that are precisely our very weakness.
The Most Misunderstood Sin In Jewish History
When you do something – even something good – without being commanded, all you are reflecting is yourself. It is your personal form of avodah, self-contained, limited, and disconnected from Hashem.
A Mikdash Menagerie
According to one opinion, the second keruv on the parochet was not a lion but had the face of an eagle! This eagle was present in both the first and second Batei Mikdash, until they were destroyed.
Judge James Boasberg’s Non-Sequitur
Although the Supreme Court agreed that the migrants were entitled to challenge their deportations and that they were also entitled to reasonable notice of impending deportation in order to contest them.
Yom HaShoah: Echoes Of Hatred: Antisemitism From 1940 To 2023
Antisemitism isn’t a historical accident – it’s woven into the fabric of the human story. Though it often cloaks itself in cultural, economic, or ethnic explanations, its roots run deeper.
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