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Your self-awareness and your ability to worry over their influence will only aid you in this process.
By Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman
Even a cursory reading of the pesukim leaves the reader in awe of the speed Avraham exhibited in performing the mitzvah.
He had deposited Shlomo’s real, original check into his account, and when it had cleared he had made up this weird story to get an additional 3,600 shekels out of Shlomo!
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
A pattern is beginning to emerge: Avraham was learning that there is a long and winding road between promise and fulfillment. Not because G-d does not keep His word, but because Avraham and his descendants were charged with bringing something new into the world
By Morton A. Klein and Dr. Daniel Mandel
The Democratic Party is fast reaching the point where it must either succumb to the new radical leftist positions on Israel or return to its traditional support Israel
The first thing we have to do is recognize the problem. How do you solve a problem if you don’t even recognize where it’s coming from?
Until George Gershwin, serious American orchestral composers were predominantly influenced by European schools of music. By composing original musical works based upon the rhythms, melodies, and moods of American popular music, Gershwin proved that the finer elements of jazz could be integrated into music to form the basis of symphonic creations typically and uniquely American. […]
According to several accounts, he insisted that no one should be held on bail because of an inability to come up with the required cash.
If they fear that their case may be undermined by what the Republicans might bring to the table, then that only means their case against the president is not a valid one.
The United States is seized with issues that old style American liberalism simply couldn’t get its arms around.
By Tzvi Fishman
Everyone knows a secular person or two. Why not invite them to experience the beauty of a Shabbat?
By Tzvi Fishman
Whenever people called him a racist, he would answer, “I don’t hate Arabs – I love Jews.”
By Sandy Eller
I know, after all of those Yom Tov meals, you may still be on hiatus from kitchen duty, but these two cookbooks might have you rethinking that decision.
While we were there, we explored the shuk. The sights, smells and delicious food are unmatched by any other marketplace I have ever been to.
If you practice nothing, that's all Judaism will mean to you – nothing.
In fact, instead of doing things that help us learn, we often do the exact opposite.
Some of the Jews expelled from Recife, Brazil in 1654 by the Portuguese also settled in Suriname, and, not long after, Suriname was one of the most important Jewish population centers in the Western Hemisphere.
By dvora
China Glatt’s owner and manager, Sholom Witriol, told us that his goal has always been to run a good place for family dining, with a price range that makes it practical for even those of modest means to enjoy a night out, even when it isn’t a special occasion.
By Tzvi Fishman
Avraham Avinu made aliyah when only idol worshippers filled the land. He came even though there were no deluxe apartments, no Jewish army, no flourishing yeshivot, no synagogues, and no kosher pizza shops as there are in abundance today.
Do we have the courage to swim against the stream? To be in the minority? To be different?
The first act of creation involved making boundaries. What does this mean? That without boundaries – without distinctions between light and dark, heavens and earth, man and woman – we live in chaos. In tohu va’vohu. We, as a society, have thrown away the very first lines of Bereshit.
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.
August 21, 2026 
