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Schonfeld didn’t just save the children from a distance, but got involved in their struggles. “He was a father figure and had a personal relationship with many of the children,” Riki says.
We do not expect those elected to be Moshe Rabbeinu. Still, the parshi’ot that will accompany the election campaign in the weeks ahead should remind us of how, ideally, those in leadership roles should conduct themselves.
What About Ma’ariv? ‘The Bridegroom Is Exempt From Kerias Shema’ (Berachos 16a)
Was R’ Simcha Bunim justified in not bringing Moshiach because of the distress of one individual?
Question: Should the congregation say “Amen” after the berachah of “habocher b’amo Yisrael b’ahavah” (right before Shema)? I have seen different shuls do different things. M. Goldman
We don’t seek out faults in people to tell them off, but we should always look for ways to help set people on the right path while we ourselves serve as shining personal examples.
If a person would sense that he is a noble dignified person, it would help him avoid falling prey to the yetzer hara.
By Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman
When everyone else was a bystander, Moshe takes action and defends the Ivri.
By Roni
The viewer/listener is treated to a mix of older, beloved soloists as well as some new voices. Since this is a Gerstner production, it of course has a 2020 flash and modern sound.
The company claims it can reduce average purchased transportation costs by 30 percent, and it has secured some of the most coveted customers in the industry.
In the 1930s, many Jews left Rhodes (which belonged to Italy since 1912) after Benito Mussolini decided to make an alliance with Hitler and anti-Semitism increased.
Dear Newsweek and other disingenuous LEFTISTS: "Bring back the feathers.
When there is someone who leans toward one group, but doesn’t tick every box, people may still encourage them to accept the label in order to expedite the dating process.
By Avi Ciment
Human nature is such that when times are good – when we have gezunt and mazal and beracha – it's easy to forget the source of our blessings. Let's remember who sent them
Can a frum Jew confidently assert that it's “the common responsibility of the Jewish people” to maintain Israel as a democracy?
By Tzvi Fishman
Overnight, the Arabs and Bedouins erect a few tents and shacks on a piece of deserted land, then claim that their grandparents lived there for hundreds of years.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
When G-d said, “I will be what I will be,” He was telling us something not only about G-d but about us when we are open to G-d and have faith in His faith in us.
Administrative detention is a necessary weapon in fighting actual terrorism – e.g., plots to carry out suicide bombings and the like. But Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria may be served with administrative orders for nothing more than being active in the settler cause –
I am not qualified to know if they’re right, but as we drove into Ben Gurion airport, I saw that someone had sprayed on a wall, “Am Yisrael Chai!” That graffiti is absolutely right.
Israeli leaders do not share the neoconservatives’ pro-democracy perspective. Israel aims to develop good relations with authoritarian regimes to avoid conflict, and, in the Arab world, Israeli leaders are often more frightened by the prospect of a democratic government led by antagonistic political factions than they are of iron-fisted dictators who prefer to avoid hostilities with Israel.
Hapless Jews simply walking in the street minding their own business have become the face of the failure of bail reform.
By Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum
Mr. Noel, what is your definition of anti-Semitism?"
The Palestinian mantra is now officially and proudly that killing Israelis is merely political activity and entitled to all of the respect and protections accorded to other such worthy endeavors.
By Tzvi Fishman
The Yalkut Shemoni says that the year Mashiach comes, the Iranians will wreak great havoc in the world.
Rabbi Schimmel’s greatest contribution, aside from his organization and clarity, is his discussion of the rabbinic mind.
The editorial invoked the theme of a “commoner marrying Prince Charming” and the nasty brouhaha triggered by their decision to quit the royal family.
As our letter demonstrates, this endeavor was strongly supported by President Sadat; it is not often that a head of state writes a personal note to thank a donor for a three-dollar contribution!
What happens when that devil is standing and waiting for you as you failed or messed up at something?
Should a person feel guilty for using an English ArtScroll Gemara (as opposed to struggling with the original Aramaic)?
By Marc Gronich
A person who sets a time to learn every single day and to advance in their learning every single day, such a person is going to be mekayem in Talmud Torah on a greater level every day of his life.”
Shabina Lafleur-Gangji, editor of the Journal of the American Herbalists Guild, takes credit for convincing conference supporters and scheduled lecturers to boycott the conference in Israel.
Jewry is, ever vigilant, ever driven, to preserve its Orthodoxy, to ensure Jewish survival through religious commitment.
Hidden away in the storage room, Shmuel Aryeh's Torah school survived the worst pogrom Europe had ever seen.
There is something so comforting about a bowl of warm pesto-laden pasta with perfectly cooked salmon on a cold winter night.
With so many new cases of ADHD reported each year, it is important to help children learn how to sit still.
He loved Daniel very much, but was helpless to do anything in the face of all of his ministers and soldiers.
The trauma of our son-father kidney transplant has never faded from my memory.
A few years later, he said, in 2015, he attended a Kahane Shabbaton and was inspired to embark on his video project after an old Kahane activist said, “When you go back home, don’t just say, ‘Kahane was right.’ Do something!”
The greatest feelings of accomplishment result from when one invests the most effort in its attainment.
He had an hour until his next appointment, but there wasn't much he could do meanwhile. It didn't pay to go home. He took out his Gemara and began learning Daf Yomi.
A Night-Day Dilemma ‘When One Reads Shema’ (Berachos 8b)
“Who needs enemies when you have Jews who behave in such a fashion?” Dov Hikind, head of Americans Against Antisemitism, said about Adkins.
The fire of truth burned brightly before Esav, but he was headstrong.
Question: Should the congregation say “Amen” after the berachah of “habocher b’amo Yisrael b’ahavah” (right before Shema)? I have seen different shuls do different things. M. Goldman
Yaakov’s service of G-d, at his high spiritual level, required him to be buried with his father Yitzchak and grandfather Avraham in Me’aras HaMachpeilah, a place of openly revealed holiness.
It must be incredibly frustrating to hear that you are ‘picky’ from family and friends when you are diligently trying to find your zivug.
Permission was granted and he traveled to China, meticulously recording the customs, life, and habits of the natives he encountered.
By Tzvi Fishman
The writing must be for the sake of the mitzvah, and kavanah is especially required when writing the names of Hashem.
Rav Shimshon Pincus informs us that for every blatt we make an attempt to study, we will be allowed to master it in the yeshiva shel maalah.
If we are dealing with the end of days and the knowledge of Hashem is abundantly clear to all, how could each nation think of deceiving Hashem?
By Risa Rotman
We were heartbroken. Beyond the cost, who could deny the holiness and sentimentality of a boy’s tefillin?
How do we know that Yeshurun is Yaakov? One place where the equivalence is clear is a passage recited before the morning prayers.
Brain activation patterns for simple thoughts or emotions – while interesting and newsworthy – hardly provide insight into the more complex and abstract thoughts that humans regularly have.
The organizers neglected the very communities with whom they claimed to show solidarity. Coincidence? Oversight? Incompetence?
At Sunday’s “No Hate, No Fear” solidarity march against anti-Semitism, a featured speaker, Chaskell Bennett, made plain that there is more in play than just feelings within the black community.
Should a person lend any significance to his dreams?
Should the judge be strict and abide by the law, or make an exception because of the circumstances?
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Genesis is not a hymn to the virtue of families. It is a candid, honest, fully worked-through account of what it is to confront some of the main problems within families, even the best.
Falling down had some hope immersed within its meaning. If someone falls down, they can get up.
Joseph Trumpeldor (1880-1920) is known for his efforts in forming a Jewish military force to liberate and defend Eretz Yisrael and for founding the Zion Mule Corps and the Jewish Legion, but he is probably best known for his legendary defense of Tel Chai when he uttered the immortal dying words, “Ein davar, tov lamut […]
By Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Rabbi Yonah Bardos
First, we must understand that an attack on any Jew is an attack on all of us...
Nothing has “trumped” the opportunity I recently had to serve as the opening speaker and emcee for a luncheon in honor of President Trump attended by hundreds of Orthodox Jewish businessmen
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Arabs who live in eastern Jerusalem will not be allowed to set the stage for a PA state that includes Israel's capital.
If decent people working in mainstream American media want to know why many Americans don’t trust them and are willing to use the term “fake news” to describe the mainstream media, I offer one of the most glaring examples of a lie in my lifetime.
It’s difficult to describe an event of this magnitude in words. But I’ll share a few highlights...
We were stunned by House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s letter to Democratic members of Congress announcing that the House will introduce and vote on a war powers resolution limiting President Trump’s military actions regarding Iran. This is Trump Derangement Syndrome out of control. According to Pelosi, the resolution “reasserts Congress’ long-established oversight responsibilities by […]
If somebody reads that Ashkenazi Jews have higher IQs than people of Scots-Irish descent – and I speak as a Scots-Irish person – and they feel resentful, that’s their problem.
By Tzvi Fishman
If Smotrich doesn’t play ball, he may find himself on the sidelines this time around, warming the bench with Moshe Feiglin, who has already decided not to run, declaring that his unique ideas cannot be heard in this electoral atmosphere.
The Guardian Angels’ ultimate aim is to “engage Jews to get more involved, to be more vigilant – and not be as dependent on the mayor, governor, and the police,” Sliwa told The Jewish Press.
The question on everyone’s mind is: What can be done? What can we or anyone do about deranged individuals from all walks of life who are out there, with hate directing their next move? What should we expect from our politicians?
By Libi Astaire
Those of us who engage in the pursuit of factual accuracy do so out of love.
By Sandy Eller
I would say that that oven was 45-years-old when it finally baked its last pan of brownies and was relegated to the great big kitchen in the sky.
By Yaffa Ganz
Whatever you are doing, do it mindfully – heart and soul – without allowing other things to intrude, with one exception: If you pass someone else walking, smile.
"It feels wrong to work all day with non-kosher food," replied Mrs. Fleishman. "Are you sure it's allowed?"
Ibn Janach writes that produce is called “tevuah” because it comes at certain times of the year.
Rabi Akiva found the woman and saw that her son was indeed ignorant. With the mother’s permission, he circumcised the son and began to teach him all that a Jewish child should know.
A Glorious Return ‘Tam V’nishlam’ (Niddah 73a)
Today, mysticism abounds, whether from the traditions of Chasidism, the Arizal, the Maharal, or some new combination. And yet, these approaches do not satisfy everyone.
The Order of Prayer introduced many drastic changes to the traditional liturgy,
It is only prohibited to dwell in Mitzrayim while it is under non-Jewish rule. The reason for this is because the actions of the people of Mitzrayim were the most immoral, and thus the Torah did not want individuals to dwell there under their influence.
I always feel that it’s important to fight back – even if you are going down, at least the opponent will have a scratch or bruise as well.
He found a non-Jew who had a mule to sell and a bargain was quickly struck. Happily, Shimon Ben Shetach rode home thinking: “Now I can do my work quickly and have all the extra time to devote to teaching my students Torah.”
It’s hard to believe, but friendship truly begins by believing in yourself and having the ability to accept both constructive criticism and affection.
Is it better to complain, seek revenge, and hold a grudge? Or is it better to find a blessing within the curse?
When it comes to our health, hishtadlut often means going to and listening to a doctor.
By Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman
Instead of focusing on the trauma, he should have realized that Hashem saved him from Esav and Lavan, and returned Dinah and Yosef.
August 28, 2026 
