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Each tent faced a different direction so that no one could see into the tent of anyone else.
Anger and victimhood not only ruin an individual's life; they destroy his relationships with others.
Over the next few years, his interest and admiration for the Jewish people grew, and he published many publications in Japanese on Jews and Judaism.
By Marc Gronich
Schick also told the court that in a sleep away situation campers are in an insular bubble having no contact with others from outside the confines of the campgrounds.
You see the effort that your older siblings must expend in order to grow their families and you want to reject all the obligation that brings.
By dvora
For years I have been interested in stories about families that lost someone they loved, like the one I am compelled to write now.
By Irwin Cohen
"I consider baseball a very good thing for the population during the war," Roosevelt stated.
Despite the fact that Abraham had not been prepared to entertain guests, he approached the opportunity with zeal and love and quickly went about the task of making his guests feel comfortable.
After days with no return call, I was desperate. My Israeli friends advised me to show up at the dental clinic as an “emergency case” and insist on being seen.
Question: The Covid-19 pandemic has put an end to almost all public gatherings; hence, much of Jewish congregational ritual has come to a halt. Is there a way to make up for everything we missed? M. Goldman
The whole idea is that the connection between fashion and modesty is seamless.
By Sandy Eller
Rabbi Michoel Green, overseas director of Sharfman’s seminary, described a year in Israel for gap year students as an incomparable educational opportunity.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Science deals in causes and effects, not purpose and meaning. In the end, he concluded that only religious faith rescues life from meaninglessness.
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Maimonides explains that “ruach” also means a life-giving spirit, which is what remains of a person after death (Ecclesiastes 12:7).
Cuomo likened funerals to participatory sports: “Now is not the time to be playing Frisbee with your friends in the park.”
While abortion is at the very center of conservative concerns, the admission issue can hardly be ranked as heated.
Official projections are that there will be an $8.75 billion budget deficit that the mayor will have to make up.
Later in life, Parks frequently and vociferously spoke out against skinheads – who typically manifest neo-Nazi beliefs regarding Jews – and the Ku Klux Klan, whom she blamed for “keeping the flames of prejudice flickering” and for much of the continuing racism in America.
“A state need not subsidize private education. But once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious.
Is it proper to watch or enjoy the sport of boxing?
As G-d-fearing Jews, we all have a connection to Hashem and yet we don’t see him, or hear him, nor can we feel him.
Most Jews and Christians fear the left more than they fear G-d.
Not only did he respond to those who reached out to him, he proactively reached out to others in order to help, advise, cajole and simply share his rich experience with a tyro.
He did not take the easy path of avoiding any controversial topic or promoting only safe and popular stances.
I feel honored to have attended his sermons and lectures. He would weave a tapestry of ideas and words into a poetic bridging of multiple disciplines.
Rabbi Lamm was eminently approachable and made himself available to anyone who needed him.
There was no pressure, no didactics, just a Zeida who was available to share his passion for learning – if we wished.
Zoom dating works for the first few dates or the first few weeks, but a real relationship generally grows from being with a person face-to-face.
If people believed they were all exactly alike, they wouldn’t struggle to prove their uniqueness, and the world wouldn’t develop as it should.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The removal of the neighborhoods outside the security barrier from Jerusalem could be acceptable if they were to become separate Israeli municipalities.
While I am not calling to question the diagnoses of medical professionals, there are many children who exhibit signs of ADHD but may be struggling with something else.
Relationships are reciprocal. If we demonstrate to our children how to find something to respect in every person, they will reap the reward of being loved in turn by everyone around them.
"I tried calling him but couldn't reach him," said Yoni. "What's the difference, though? He didn't limit how long I could use the drill and he doesn’t even know I returned it to you."
He argued that the statues should instead move to museums. I think he makes a fair point but an incomplete one.
Question: The Covid-19 pandemic has put an end to almost all public gatherings; hence, much of Jewish congregational ritual has come to a halt. Is there a way to make up for everything we missed? M. Goldman
Rabbi Lamm was prepared, indeed proud, to be an “intellectual diplomat” who sought to make peace between competing ideas.
How can Israel reach an agreement with a party whose ultimate aim is Israel’s complete elimination?
Chassidim said that the way to shun evil is through doing good; however, there is value in doing good for its own sake, said Rabbi Waldman.
Korach was the hero of the hour. His ratings and the spirit of the times were on his side.
Because of Hungary's relative safety in the first five years of the war, numerous sefarim were amazingly published there even as the Holocaust ravished Jewish life elsewhere.
He was among the first in America to have special tefillot for Israel’s Independence Day, but he was simultaneously least inclined to word these prayer along the lines of the arrival of the redemption or the heralding of the messianic era.
By Ann Goldberg
They realized he must have got on a bus, but they had no idea which bus. They had no way of knowing whether it had been a bus to Ramot where we live.
Her eyes, however, were wide open, taking it all in. She was fascinated by the surrounding babies after our long indoor confinement.
Tefillah is only m’drabbanan, but the avoidance of machlokes is m’doraysa.
I will never minimize the strength and determination it takes to get dressed up, to put on a happy face, and to portray positivity and enthusiasm when you have been dating for so many years.
The Carpenter’s Folly ‘All [Worn-Out] Holy Writings…’ (Shabbos 115a)
By expressing, in terms they could comprehend, the Torah’s profound mystical secrets, he provided his disciples a window into his own overarching perspective and exalted vision.
By Tzvi Fishman
Jean Jacques Rousseau asserted that culture transforms man into an egotistical and lust-filled creature, places him in constant competition with others, and causes him to be a jealous liar.
By Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman
Fights and disagreements often feel sweet and right in the moment but lead to bitterness and regrets in the long run.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Their aim was to discredit Moshe, damage his credibility, raise doubts among the people as to whether he really was receiving his instructions from G-d.
By Baruch Lytle
Initially, eVITALS did not plan to enter the consumer market so soon, but the advent of the Covid-19 crisis hastened Womba to provide what it called a level of comfort, convenience, and certainty to the general market as soon as possible.
The law is only as powerful as the will of the people to respect it, the ability of the police and justice system to enforce it, and the determination of leaders to uphold it.
For almost half a century, there has been unremitting pressure on Israel – including, sadly, from the United States under certain administrations – to return the Golan to Syria.
By Marc Gronich
These health and safety protocols would render overnight camps considerably safer than the exempted mass protests as they relate to the transmission of COVID-19.
Should the average Jew learn Kabbalah?
You got the message either subtly or not so subtly that America was a great country, that its founding made it great and unique in the history of nations, and that we are part of that American project.
Arab spokesmen, Palestinian leaders, and EU officials are claiming that a Palestinian state will be rendered impossible if Israel gets what it wants without negotiations.
In another famous Talmudic passage, the rabbis speak about taming the force of the Evil Inclination for idolatry, which took on the form of a lion made of fire.
Of course, it soon became clear that the issue was not as harmless as Gorsuch may have thought.
Throughout some of my hardest times, I always felt as if the Lubavitcher Rebbe, though I never met him, was always there for me.
The nation had nothing to do. There was no mission to accomplish, no sense of urgency, and about this our sages wrote: "Idleness leads to boredeom and boredom leads to sin."
While codifying and summarizing halachot for easy reference seems natural today, it was met with fierce criticism from some of the greatest gedolim centuries ago.
An obligation b'dinei Shamayim doesn’t just mean an ethical responsibility.
We have to be very mindful of the lashon hara pitfalls and traps that the yeitzer hara cleverly sets for us during this pandemic.
By All Means Rescue! ‘If One Removes a Fish from the Sea’ (Shabbos 107b)
I didn’t realize that the anecdotes I gave my offspring, and then grandchildren, would truly be heard and also remembered.
I though it was showing weakness to ask for help. So, I never asked for help and no one offered any.
By Avi Ciment
There is a line between permissible and forbidden. Between right and wrong. Between good and evil. Because Hashem knew that the blurring of lines would allow people to commit crimes and then justify them.
Labels are great because they are clear and defined, but when we only see the label, we lose the individual.
By Tzvi Fishman
When Rav Kook became the chief rabbi of Jerusalem, he visited the Bezalel Academy of Art, and encouraged the students to use their talents to paint landscapes of Eretz Yisrael to arouse a yearning for the Land in the hearts of everyone who viewed the paintings.
By Tuvia Ganz
For Jews, the timing of these protests was remarkable. They started on Shavuos, a day when we were k'ish echad b'lev achad.
By Rabbi Zvi Block and Rabbi Aaron Perry
The answer, my friends, lies in a Hebrew National hot dog commercial: "We answer to a Higher Authority!"
Today, the challenge is to bring the Torah’s teachings, including its deepest mystical concepts, to Jews far from Torah as a means of drawing them back to Yiddishkeit.
You are certainly lucky to have had a brother go through shidduchim before you so that you could better understand how the process works.
Because the Jewish people lacked emunah, they became troubled and confused.
As I watched my family devouring their ice cream cones on the walk back to the car, one thing was clear. My family was really enjoying their time in Israel.
Question: The Covid-19 pandemic has put an end to almost all public gatherings; hence, much of Jewish congregational ritual has come to a halt. Is there a way to make up for everything we missed? M. Goldman
I’d love it if more companies would stop using the harsh chemicals in their makeup.
The morally serious person asks who abolished slavery, not who practiced it.
By Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman
It’s not entirely clear within the narrative what the spies did wrong. They were asked to scout the land and report back, and that’s what they did.
By Tzvi Fishman
Suddenly, Arabs, recruited by leftist groups, came forward claiming that they or their fathers had planted olive trees on the site or grazed their sheep there.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
They were about to enter a land they had not seen. They had no idea what they were fighting for.
If there was a historical "Palestinian" nation, when did it begin, when did it cease to exist, and what caused its demise?
Rabbi Mecklenberg writes that “arisah” is related to “eres” (bed): Just as dough consists of a mixture of flour and water, so too a bed’s mattress rest on a mixture of interplaced beams or planks.
The things that the meraglim saw were true, however, Hashem is always trying to see the good and to concentrate on what is positive.
Although the severity of the lockdown has now become somewhat controversial, in March it certainly seemed to make sense, and most were prepared to accept the notion that quarantine was necessary – as a matter of medical science – to stem the spread of the virus.
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