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The Rebbe says that Noach trained himself to see the good in all people, and therefore he was even able to see the good in the degenerate people of the generation of the flood.
There is an unbridgeable divide in the way left and right perceive this reality.
In American society, wealth and power are the goals, while modesty and diffidence are impediments to success.
With hope and a prayer, and the longing of a daughter to save her mother from the abyss of sadness, Laura drove straight to Minnie’s home and knocked on the door, her arms filled with unexpected packages.
Avraham Avinu symbolized Toras chesed, the Torah of loving kindness. Commentaries ask: Is there a Torah that isn’t loving kindness?
Question: What did our sages mean when they said that anyone who resides outside the Land Israel is like an idol worshipper? Is that what all of us residing outside Israel are – idol worshippers? M. Goldblum (Via E-Mail)
A Shabbos Treat ‘Snow Is Neither Food Nor Drink’ (Niddah 17a)
Another word for dust, mentioned above, is “avak.” Rabbi Pappenheim argues that afar is run-of-the-mill dirt while avak is finer dust.
Sara felt bad but thought her friend should compensate her for at least some of the money.
By Risa Rotman
While sitting in our home, watching over our two little boys, ages 3 and 1, it hit us: we had a mission. Mama Rachel needed us. She needed us to come daven over the fate of Klal Yisroel.
When others see that serving Hashem is rewarded with material abundance, G-d’s name is sanctified. It is a kiddush Hashem.
By Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman
G-d, as it were, requires man’s assistance in revealing His presence in the world. Avram’s job was to spread G-d’s message in a world where He was obscured by idol worship.
We must continue to educate the world about Who the single creator and ruler of the world is. But how are we to do so?
I was trying to be successful in both roles, as a lawyer and as a mother. Staying at home all day with three very young children also wouldn't have been easy for me!
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Avraham is the father of faith--not as acceptance but as protest
The biggest change was the prohibition of bassar b’chalav. Eriske also kept his staff, and is very happy with his new customers, whom he finds to be most friendly and generous.
By Tzvi Fishman
The Brit Olam organization is in contact with thousands of Bnei Noach who seek spiritual and halachic guidance.
Hiring a project manager that you trust to oversee the project and frequently traveling overseas to see your developers at work can give you some measure of control.
By Irwin Cohen
I was surprised the Nats won Game 6 and was rooting for Houston to pull out a win in the final game before the home crowd.
To expect financial support without any impact or input is immature and unrealistic.
By Eve Glover
Uncle Poczter stepped out of line and approached my brother with his pocket watch and told him: ‘Take the watch, I won’t be needing it anymore.’
In September, Jewish Press columnist Saul Jay Singer wrote an article on Felix Frankfurter to which Dr. Rafael Medoff took great exception. We decided to let the two of them duke it out in this week’s issue.
The motive behind this impeachment process is highly suspect. On top of that, there are strange inconsistencies with the current frenzied impeachment project itself.
Given Sanders’s significant support in the Democratic Party, there can be little doubt about what a Democratic victory in the 2020 presidential election would mean for Israel.
When The American Girl failed to show up at Bourget Airfield in Paris as scheduled, the international media exploded with extensive coverage mourning the pilots’ deaths, declaring them presumably lost at sea, but joyous coverage ensued soon after with news of their rescue and survival.
Sometimes a person just wants empathy, understanding, and having someone just be there in the moment with a hug or a listening ear.
By Tzvi Fishman
The evidence for a conspiracy is too glaring to ignore.
Is it appropriate to listen to the music of Richard Wagner?
News from across the pond.
By Sandy Eller
The list of potential sartorial mishaps goes on and on, but thankfully, there are plenty of fixes to save the day as well as steps you can take to prevent problems from ever occurring in the first place.
Only when one understands that the left – the left, not liberalism – has always and everywhere been a destructive force can one begin to understand what is happening to America. And the left has damaged no group more than America’s youth.
One of the shocking elements of this period is the masterful use of Torah to justify Haskalah ambitions.
As most parents only want their children to enjoy and succeed, they feel a lot of pain when their child seems to miss out on so many of life’s rewards because they are scared of something.
She is afraid to ask for the going rate for her skill set, aware that she is replaceable – and she needs the income from her job to help support her family.
Despite proudly stating that she is “the number one publisher of Palestinian voices in America” and has encouraged Israelis to vote for the anti-Israel Joint List, she was targeted nonetheless.
After everything is analyzed, fear G-d and hearken to His mitzvos for that is all of man.” Walking with G-d is the ultimate achievement.
The nightmare of incessant pressuring of the Jewish state – so characteristic of the Obama presidency – will be upon us once again if Warren, or any of the other Democratic front-runners, win the election next November.
Noach is considered responsible for the Flood because he felt no personal responsibility for his generation.
Sometimes when we are locked in our little boxes, we, like Noach in the ark, need a window. When we think our world is crumbling and that we are doomed to a fate that is too difficult to bear, the Almighty tells us to make a window.
What was Adam missing? After all, he had everything – a female companion, food, a Garden of Eden surrounding him. What was lacking?
Try as they do to be loved, Jews continue to be hated more than any other population, regardless of what “type” of Jew they are. Here are the stages and the responses. Best of luck.
Tens of thousands of students crowded the streets of Bnei Brak to accompany the man who had been head of the Bnei Brak Beis Din and Rosh Kollel Chazon Ish for many decades.
By the time the Dutch took control in 1630, they found many New Christians (Jews forced by the Portuguese to convert to Christianity) present, many of whom continued to practice Judaism in private.
Somewhat Lacking ‘A Deaf Woman, An Imbecile…’ (Niddah 13b)
Rashi writes that the world was going to be destroyed because of rampant immorality. So why does the Talmud say robbery sealed the decree?
Question: What did our sages mean when they said that anyone who resides outside the Land of Israel is like an idol worshipper? Is that what all of us residing outside Israel are – idol worshippers? M. Goldblum (Via E-Mail)
By Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman
If G-d miraculously ensured that all the animals came to Noach, why make him responsible for bringing them into the ark?
Rav Yerucham explains that the beginning of everything defines what it will be. We find that in the beginning of the parsha, Noach is referred to as an ish tzaddik tamim, and now he is referred to as an ish ha’adama.
Every so often I would sit down at the baby grand piano in my childhood home and play a few songs. I had learned enough to play piano on an intermediate level.
Some hospitals, such as Mercy Virtual, have already started using remote monitoring devices.
Since this girl has known you for the same amount of time that you have known her, you have to assume that she has made her decision with careful thought and deliberation.
Desbois is not just interested in where the Jews were killed. He wants to know exactly how they were killed. No detail is too small for Desbois in documenting what he calls the “Holocaust by Bullets.”
When we choose our friends and connect to certain types of people, we must make sure that they are good people inside and out.
In response to Rav Feinstein's call, thousands of Orthodox Jews...conducted a mass protest against Israel's handling of the "Who is a Jew?" issue.
A Newsweek story even suggested that at the time of his death, Baghdadi may not have been in charge of the Islamic State...
By Tzvi Fishman
Golani soldiers attempted to arrest several youngsters and fired shots in the air over their heads.
News from across the pond.
“I didn’t choose the violin because of my grandfather. But I definitely had the idea that the violin was important when I was very young,” she noted.
I’m so glad to see that furry fuzzy outerwear is still very much on trend this season.
Once Irmgard understood what had happened to the Jews of Kittsee, she made it her mission to perpetuate their memory and do everything she could to prevent history from repeating itself.
By Pnina Baim
The best way to get them to sit down and actually do their work is by making it part of their schedule.
Location, Location! ‘Uncleanness Is Determined by the Time the Body Is Found’ (Niddah 4)
By Judy Waldman
Jews were in Texas as far back as the late 1500s, but there wasn’t an established Jewish settlement until 1820.
My good fortune was grandparents and “greats,” and an uncle who had the vision and courage to leave Europe after World War I. Even if it wasn’t vision, surely it was courage.
By publishing this siddur, the government wished to demonstrate its egalitarian values.
Did you ever notice that the Ten Commandments only address one character trait? “Thou shall not be envious.” Isn’t that amazing?! The Ten Commandments contain nothing on anger, laziness, greed, or stinginess. They make no mention of the evils of arrogance or being self-centered. The only harmful feeling it warns us about is envy. In […]
The maximizers who spend so much time on the decision are often less happy with the results.
The Vilna Gaon argues that man stopped resembling G-d in the generation of Adam’s grandson Enosh when idol worship began to develop.
If Israel’s attorney general does indict Netanyahu, however, he will have done far more than overthrow a political leader. He will have embraced a legal doctrine that rejects the very essence of democracy.
My wife and I live in Israel now. This has been our lifelong dream. This is where we belong! This is where we want to be!
We see from the Talmud that ingratitude can be cause for harsh punishment.
The power of truth --and Torah--is the final word.
It was one of the few weddings, maybe the only one I’ve been to, where people weren’t talking to each other or on their cell phones during the chupah.
The universe was created for the sake of the Torah and for the sake of the Jewish people – i.e., in order that we Jews study and observe the Torah.
Why, then, has Schumer, who has called himself "a guardian of Israel," reversed himself and agreed to be a featured speaker at the upcoming J Street conference?
“How can you know there’s no G-d? Can anyone possibly prove there’s no G-d? How can you prove that?” I wondered.
Of Rav Nissim Karlitz,(ZT"L) the Chazon Ish said “One day, the entire world will hear from him.” He was right.
Such is the power and stranglehold of the left today – in big business as much as in journalism and our schools.
Question: The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch states that a person should put on his right shoe first but tie his left shoe first. Why? Y. Malinsky
Do young children belong in shul?
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
The Torah is telling us something very powerful. Never think of people as things. Never think of people as types: they are individuals. Never be content with creating systems: care also about relationships.
The majority of children in the U.S. spend more than two hours a day before a screen. Does too much screen time affect children negatively?
You no longer want to be bogged down by the minutiae that we sometimes focus on in shidduchim, yet your mother doesn’t seem to agree.
July 17, 2026 
