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Adding insult to injury, a member of the local school board, Joan Terrell, actually suggested that the murderous rampage was explainable as a reaction to Jewish interlopers displacing blacks in traditionally black neighborhoods.
Over the years, the World's Largest Menorah has been lit by New York City Mayors Abraham Beame, Ed Koch, David Dinkins, Rudolph Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio – and Governors George Pataki and David Paterson, as well as other dignitaries.
Is it okay to enjoy Christmas songs like “Jingle Bells” if one happens to hear them playing in a store or on the street?
This is serious stuff and will doubtless have really significant consequences for those involved.
Some authorities rule that the vast majority of keilim nowadays should be toveled without a berachah since they have never been in the private possession of a non-Jew.
By Baruch Lytle
"Jews are moving in and they treat [black people] like we don't exist."
By Sandy Eller
Whether it’s hearty soups oozing with seasonal flavors or the scent of chocolate chip cookies wafting through your home, December was made for the kitchen – and thus the perfect season to check out some intriguing new cookbooks.
Is the incorporation of secular education the death nail to Jewry's survival?
Reading allows you to explore and learn about the world around you in a safe and supported environment.
The Rif offers a different rationale. He writes that the agent must share the extra items with the sender because the benefit came about through his money.
Soul Food ‘It Comes to Include a Fragrance’ (Niddah 52a)
Can you believe it’s almost Chanukah? I can! Chanukah already came early in our house, when, by accident, my son opened an Amazon box containing his present. Oh well! This year I came up with a new latke recipe that is modern, beautiful and contemporary. This recipe is versatile, delicious and can be served for […]
By dvora
It seemed that Esther's parents were always in our home, even when they physically were not there.
She probably gave no conscious thought to the message that she broadcast. She did not mean to deliberately offend anyone; it just seemed like a cute thing to do.
“I came here to get a mask so…Moshiach won’t see my aveiros.”
Many people suggested the idea of Daf Yomi before Rabbi Shapiro submitted it to the Knessia Gedolah in 1923. Rabbi Shapiro, however, is the one who publicized it.
Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz emphasized again and again when he taught this parshah that Yaakov moving the massive stone from the well was not a miracle. Yet, it was not a matter of physical strength either. It was a matter of heart and faith.
Halacha mandates that the anniversary of a miracle be celebrated, not only by its subject, but by his descendants and disciples in later generations.
Why was Avraham’s name completely changed and Yaakov’s merely added on to?
Reports have emerged of intimidation and discrimination directed not only at Jewish students, but also at Jewish professors.
Question: Whenever an activity is prohibited because of kavod hatzibbur (the dignity of the congregation), may a kehilla decide that the activity does not offend them? Menachem
When we avoid talking poorly about other people – whether at our Shabbos table, in the coffee room at the office, or at the dinner table with a spouse – we are helping our brethren in Eretz Yisrael.
During the evening or at night, the lack of light makes everything appear mixed up and one cannot discern the differences between them. (“Erev” means both night and mixture.)
By Tzvi Mauer
How could parents providing such a name know that their son would need it to survive life's trials?
By T. Gestetner
If a person relies on human beings, Hashem will remove His hashgachah and leave the person in the hands of those whom he is depending on…
By Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman
Like the Slonimer Rebbe, Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz (Daat Torah p. 205-206) does understand "levado" as meaning alone. But based on the Midrash, he assumes that being alone is constructive. How can it be constructive?
The years pass, but my memories of you – my beloved mother – only get stronger.
This sefer seems to have been sent to New York in 1939 by an Eliyahu Margolies of Warsaw several months before the Nazis invaded Poland.
By Tzvi Fishman
The vast majority of Jews... called Yehudah a fanatic and messianic dreamer, who endangered the security of the nation.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Note, first, that this is not an adjustment of an existing name by the change or addition of a letter, It is an entirely new name, as if to signal that what it represents is a complete change of character. Second, as we have seen, the name change happened not once but twice. Third – and this is the puzzle of puzzles – having said twice that his name will no longer be Yaakov, the Torah continues to call him Yaakov. G-d Himself does so.
The motivation behind using wave energy is simple: The ocean is perpetually moving, so why not capture that movement to create power?
Sadly, the passengers in the photo were most likely people denied entry to the United States and who were therefore forced to return home to Europe.
Mrs. Sutcliffe’s letter motivated Eli to turn his small, hobbyist wine production into a professional winery, which he named Domaine du Castel.
She believed in giving people chances in life to be great and to bring out their potential to its maximum.
Last week, she made yet another strange statement, doubling down on her curious comments on the news that Amazon had rented space in Manhattan’s new Hudson Yards development.
Of particular interest is the case of American refusal to support Israel’s desire to take preemptive action against the Arab states arrayed against it in the run-up to the Six-Day War in 1967.
The resolution also charges Mr. Trump with obstruction of Congress by directing the Executive Branch “to defy lawful subpoenas” seeking testimony and documents relating to its Ukrainian probe.
Is the desire to be more machmir than one’s father good, bad, or neutral?
Schiff, Nadler, Kasrlan, Feldman, Gerhardt, Berke, Goldman... their actions against President Trump are antithetical to Jewish beliefs and values.
By Tzvi Fishman
Since fast-food hamburgers are pre-cooked before Shabbat, cooking is not a problem. The warming mechanism, though, is not like a regular Shabbat platter.
Theresienstadt does not look like a concentration camp, rather it is a quaint town today, with landmarks of Jewish Holocaust-related buildings scattered throughout.
By Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman
In a brilliantly creative rereading of the pasuk, Rabbi Shimshon suggests that alluded to in Yaakov’s word choice is this discovery of self-efficacy.
Israel certainly played a pivotal role in allowing her to see herself as part of the Jewish people.
The Gemara (Meseches Megillah) wonders why Esther invited Haman to a private feast. How could she have sat at a private meal with such a monster?
By Sandy Eller
I have had more than a few people tell me that they use their phones to do just about everything except making calls.
By Yaffa Ganz
I think about my weight, my work, my wardrobe, my kids, my bank account and what’s left in my freezer. All, as you can see, are crucial topics.
We learn in this week’s parsha that when Leah realized that she was going to have her seventh son, and her sister Rachel would then only be able to have one of the Shevatim, she davened that her fetus be changed to a girl.
Joe worries a lot. It’s not apparent to most people. In fact, he’s often described by people he knows as a really calm guy. “Nothing bothers Joe!” they say. It’s an act.
And while it destroys good institutions, the left never builds a viable replacement. Is there a left-wing equivalent to the Boy Scouts, a left-wing institution that helps mold boys into responsible men? Of course not. The left destroys, but it builds nothing – except state power. Or, to take the present example: Is there a left-wing equivalent to The Salvation Army? No, there isn’t.
How do we schedule two bar mitzvahs in shul on the same Shabbos as well as two catered affairs on their birthday?... The Rabbi in a Small Community
Rachel only related to one purpose, that of giving birth, and ignored the second purpose – to learn, to become worldly wise and pious and, in the process, to bring more goodness into the world.
Rabbi Salanter said we must all act like poor men when it comes to matters of ruchniyus.
Why did Richard Breitman, the editor of the museum’s Holocaust journal, decide to publish Weiss’s harsh attack on a venerable and respected Jewish institution as JNF? Why did he permit a journal that is supposed to showcase legitimate Holocaust research to be used to present such a twisted version of history?
Whether there is a medical issue, a mental health illness or an addiction, it must be confronted. The first step to "fixing what is broke” is facing reality and admitting that something is broke.
Even the most radical Zionist of the last 70 years, Rabbi Meir Kahane, never had any ambitions to conquer the East Bank.
Rabbi Malinowitz maximized his time to an amazing extent. Though busy with his kehillah and other tzarchei tzibur, based on the tremendous amount of work he performed, one would think that he devoted every waking moment exclusively to ArtScroll.
Immediately upon becoming Rebbe, he embarked upon the most ambitious chassidic publication program until recent times.
You Can’t Have It Both Ways ‘A Minor Who Reaches Maturity’ (Niddah 46a)
Where were the righteous gentiles – the “Schindlers,” if you will – of Kristallnacht? My quest to answer this question revealed information I had not anticipated.
The Talmud (Rosh Hashanah 26a) points out that "yovel" also means ram, and was borrowed to mean a ram’s horn (Joshua 6:4-5), as well the 50th year – the jubilee, an English word derived from the Hebrew "yovel," when such a horn is blown.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
What then are we to make of the phrase, “Pharaoh condemned only the boys to death, but Laban sought to uproot everything”?
The next day, there was knock on their door. "Who is it?" asked Mrs. Levi, but no one answered. She asked again, and again no answer, so she looked through the peephole, but saw no one.
"What a waste that I bought the bookcases last week!" he exclaimed. "I could have ordered them now for almost half the price and saved myself $800!"
By Irwin Cohen
Martin broke into the major leagues with the New York Yankees in 1950, the same year I started following baseball as a youngster in Detroit.
Even good reviews hold them back, because public knowledge makes the products seem cheaper and less exclusive.
The title page features a harrowing illustration of a Torah ark engulfed in flames, underscored by a verse taken from the Binding of Isaac.
What the Maccabees had was that light, was that ability, to let in the goodness which is G-d and his Torah.
Unlike Kristallnacht, which was a propagandistic failure, “Der Ewige Jew” proved to be successful in inculcating the belief in the German people that the Jews – all of them – were dangerous predators who spread disease and corruption and needed to be exterminated.
Many attempts to secularize Judaism describe halachot as utilitarian. They’re useful for certain purposes as opposed to being acts in which you can connect to a personal G-d.
They want to coerce Iran into a long-term, more verifiable and restrictive agreement limiting its nuclear and conventional weapons programs and its ability to support terrorism.
This past Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett announced the approval of a new Jewish neighborhood in Hebron.
How important is it to be informed about political and world affairs? Or is it important? Should the average frum Jew read the newspaper (or a news website) every day?
By Sandy Eller
Of course, there was plenty to see that had nothing to do with organic, gluten free, non-GMO and vegan fare.
By Judy Waldman
A small group of members began to explore possibilities for a permanent site for the growing congregation.
Rabbi Mecklenburg notes that another cognate, “sha,” means “closing one’s eyes” (Isaiah 6:10 and 32:3) since when a person closes his eyes, it appears as though he attaches his upper eyelid to his lower one.
How can you ensure that your children have this wonderful, confident, and happy future?
“Abba,” he said. “How can we believe our gedolim and their decisions when there are so many examples of corruption and abuse amongst them?”
On Shabbos morning, Moshe decided to serve the kiddush food since it would mostly go to waste otherwise.
I once heard that when a teacher does not expect her student to achieve, the student would, in fact, not achieve.
We should also pray that our brethren in Eretz Yisrael be able to go to sleep serenely, without fear of being terrorized.
August 28, 2026 
