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By Mendi Glik
Over the years, Cohen was in close contact with his uncle. He used to send him songs and consult with him. Shloime taught him that to sing is to pray.
Your child’s fears are very real and should not be ignored. That would only make them grow. However, bedtime is not the time to address those fears in a genuine matter.
Her positivity, energy, and incredible enthusiasm shine brightly. She is truly a light for all of us to emulate.
Having low fixed expenses early in life allows you to save aggressively and build a foundation that can compound for decades.
Particularly poignant was a copy I once owned that contained an inserted typed letter signed by Rabbi Shlomo Shleifer himself.
Six months is definitely enough time for a man and a woman to decide if at the very least, they want to commit to one another. It is certainly enough time to see if they are compatible, if their personalities align, if they have the same life goals and values, and if they have chemistry.
There are even bracketed additions embedded within the English translation, so as to clarify the meaning and also allow the language to flow more naturally.
By Alan Magill
I am a big believer in putting people in the spotlight with the strengths they have.
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
The buffer zone would be twice the size of the one Mamdani vetoed earlier this year.
Wells exemplifies a strain of liberal thought that underestimated the resilience of antisemitism and overestimated the protective power of universal ideals.
Dying with a weapon in defense of Jewish life in Israel is not the same as dying helplessly in exile. Perhaps both belong to the same Jewish story, but they tell different chapters.
By Maayan Zik
Tzom unlocks teshuvah because fasting is an act of self-denial that asserts that you are more than your appetites, which is the very foundation of repentance.
Fasting is an expression of closeness – achieved or desired. And when we think about it, isn't that really the point of all of our own fasts as well?
Jewish wisdom teaches that every person is made up of two parts: the physical self and the spiritual self, the body and the soul. They are meant to work together in harmony.
By Ruchi Koval
The first thing that pops into my head is “tzom kal,” because no one in America calls it a “tzom” – they call it a “fast day.”
It is incredibly easy to sit in a television studio thousands of miles away from the front lines of civilization and lecture a traumatized nation on the finer points of morality.
The question now is, at what point does the spread of the disease become so bad that the only solution is to flee.
Imagine what another decade of inaction would have produced.
In fact, it is an agency whose very mandate is structurally designed to prevent the resolution of the Palestinian refugee crisis.
By Ben Rothke
The topics are all real, important, and relevant in this significant work.
The story line struck a chord because I’ve known several couples who dated when very young and ended the shidduch (or were advised to end it), then married that very same person years later when the match was proposed again.
What survives here is not merely a mohel’s register, but an extraordinary ethnographic document of Jewish life in transition...
When people feel unfulfilled or discontented with their jobs or their lives, they might turn to food to suppress those feelings. Food becomes a focus instead of the boredom or the discontentment.
Throughout the narrative, Horowitz points out examples such as this, where things in her life could have been so much worse, and woven throughout the entire sefer is evidence of the incredible gratitude she has to Hashem for the many gifts she has received that help her navigate through a world without sound.
An inheritance is yours by default. It comes whether you asked for it or not. A heritage becomes valuable only when you claim it.
By Alan Zeitlin
The play presents Dahl as a man in physical pain, desperate to secure his marriage to his second wife, and increasingly cornered by public backlash.
It is important to remember that many teenagers experiment with smoking not because they are “bad kids,” but because they are curious, stressed, influenced by peers, or trying to feel more grown up.
By Mendi Glik
The album features rich orchestration, blending strings, brass, and piano with saxophone, clarinet, and electric guitar in the style of traditional chassidic music.
By Marc Gronich
Six Democratic hopefuls have emerged as contenders for the seat, which Nadler described to The Jewish Press as the safest Democratic seat in the country. “If my district ever went Republican then there isn’t a congressional district in the country that would be safe,” Nadler said.
Wealth should serve a purpose beyond individual comfort. Before personal consumption, the first portion of one’s resources should be directed toward higher purposes.
You put in time and effort and forged an emotional connection. Unfortunately, he might have been right there alongside you, but he has not arrived at the same place.
By Miriam Feit
It gives us strength to endure life’s storms and trials, Torah has imbued us with hope and determination; And, though, many other cultures existed and then perished – We – have the power – to persevere throughout the ages as a nation…
This week I continue with a discussion of six additional popular toys that were created by Jewish inventors.
The primary source underpinning the claims is the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, an organization with documented ties to Hamas and a history of laundering incendiary, unverified claims against Israel.
So much of what we accept as true about ourselves, about others, about the world, is based on appearance. It looks like what we know, so we assume it is what we know.
By Keshet Starr
Beyond the lack of post-meal dietary limitations, what is the deeper meaning behind dairy, especially on Shavuot? After all, this holiday is not only about the deliciousness of the cheesecake and that Insta-worthy cheese-pull on your lasagna.
How can something that is produced in a pure meat entity bring forth its opposite?
The pro of being milchig is that you don’t have to wait any time at all to eat fleishig. You just wash your mouth out with water and then have fleishig. Some actually wait thirty minutes.
By Hillel Fuld
The word milchig refers to dairy food as it pertains to mixing meat and milk, a prohibition we learn from the Torah commandment not to cook a calf in its mother’s milk.
As the subject of immigration is all over the news lately, this book is a clarion call for the acceptance of immigrants, couched in an accessible and relatable biography of Emma Lazarus.
If a state government can ignore its own founding charter to achieve preferred electoral outcomes, then constitutional protections are reduced to mere suggestions.
In his veto message, Mamdani attempted to wrap his decision in the noble cloth of the First Amendment and labor rights.
By Shlomo Greenwald and Joey Aron
The key question is not whether the conduct hides behind the veil of political language. As we mentioned, antisemitism almost always borrows the respectable vocabulary of its time. The question is whether Jewish students are being treated equally.
By Alan Zeitlin
“So, we are here today not to accommodate, not to give permission, not to bow our heads,” Louis-Klein said. “We are here today to say no. To say that we, as Jews and as Israelis, will not be erased from this society. We will not countenance a racist hate movement. We will not accept antizionism...
It’s hard to believe that bullying can occur in our schools, but unfortunately, bullying is a widespread problem that affects children of all religions, races, and ethnicities.
For some people, being wrong doesn’t register as a simple, everyday human experience. To them, it feels like a personal exposure. Instead of thinking, “I made a mistake,” their internal reaction is closer to, “This says something bad about me.”
Dr. Michael Kay said: I step into this role with humility, and with a deep desire to listen and learn – motivated by the conviction that we are witnessing an unparalleled resurgence in Jewish commitment under difficult circumstances, and that we have an obligation to nurture it.
By Irwin Cohen
Having a minyan with a siyum for firstborn guys like me Wednesday morning, erev Pesach, with a terrific breakfast was a big selling point for me, but the thing my old legs appreciated the most was there wasn't a single step for me to negotiate as everything was on the first floor.
Seventy-eight years ago this week, on May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was established. To celebrate this monumental event in Jewish history, here are some related medals from my personal collection.
Zahava and Rikki now didn’t live so far from each other in Lawrence, but they never spoke.
Consolidation brings clarity. Keeping investment accounts at one primary institution, or two if necessary, and maintaining a separate bank for checking, simplifies oversight.
This isn’t the time or place to debate the merits of the New Deal, but there is one true threat to our democracy looming in the form of the Leftist-Islamist takeover of the nation’s schools.
By Marc Gronich
Both Lancman and his opponent, Jake Blumencranz, will focus their campaign rhetoric on antisemitism, being pro-Zionist and the perennial issue of fighting crime.
By Baruch Landa
The poem praises the woman's physical features, and Rashi reads each one as a part of the nation.
Make eye contact. This feels so simplistic, but I have noticed that in the fast-paced world we live in, we are often looking beyond or around the person we are talking to.
Whether one is a beginner or an experienced student, there is much to gain from its pages. Even seasoned students of Chumash will encounter new ideas, new sources, and perhaps even entirely new works and meforshim highlighted within its pages.
Naomi, characteristically, is more complicated. The midrashim are divided on whether she bears moral responsibility for her family's flight from Bethlehem during the famine, and Ziegler holds that tension without resolving it.
One of the most enduring controversies surrounding Barbie concerns the question of originality; critics argued that Ruth had appropriated the idea from the Bild Lilli doll and that full credit should therefore not accrue to her.
By pursuing the prosecutions on charges of “intentional assault” and the “unlawful practice of medicine,” the Antwerp Public Prosecutor’s Office has effectively declared war on a 3,500-year-old cornerstone of the Jewish faith.
Screaming for violence and terror while barricading the sidewalks outside a synagogue is not a policy debate. It is a siege.
I recently outsourced my wisdom, only to discover that the person who I outsourced it to wasn’t on the mark.
By Adina Broder
While intelligence can be innate and knowledge can be acquired relatively quickly, wisdom tends to develop over time.
Perhaps not everyone will succeed in becoming a chacham, but certainly we can each be a talmid chacham – a student of wisdom.
After reading all those sad pages in all those sad books that sit on that very sad shelf, the most profound, deepest wisdom I’ve learned is: we just don’t know.
A wise person doesn’t have to know everything, but they should constantly be learning from everyone, not just from those who they feel are on their own level of learning.
A sober look at all of this suggests that the party may have traded away its most formidable weapon when former Congresswoman Elise Stefanik was induced by President Trump and state party leaders to withdraw from the race to prevent a bruising primary battle.
Every fifty years, in Yovel, ancestral land returns to its original family. Every seven years, in Shemittah, Hebrew slaves go free. At first glance, this looks like a Mamdani-style forced redistribution: confiscate, redistribute, repeat. It is not.
By Mendi Glik
For thousands of years, throughout the long years of exile, the Jewish people have never forgotten Jerusalem. And indeed, after two thousand years in the Diaspora, Hashem performed a huge miracle and returned Am Yisrael to the land of Israel, and to Jerusalem.
Temper tantrums are normal for toddlers, but once children are after kindergarten, we expect the number of tantrums to be significantly reduced.
Your brother is not your child. You can be kind, supportive, and welcoming, but you cannot take on the role of parent, therapist, or rescuer.
Rabbi Chaim Ephraim Zaitchik (1905–1989) stood as a distinguished spiritual mentor and prolific author within the Mussar movement, the Jewish tradition devoted to ethical refinement and introspective growth.
By Marc Gronich
Grid Strategies recently issued a report stating that preventing the nation’s coal plants from retiring over the next three years could cost consumers at least $3 billion per year.
Shiffy marveled at the way Chani was so easygoing about staying in the same house with her brother- and sister-in-law, even if that house was huge.
A healthier approach is to adopt a strategy both partners can live with emotionally. The mathematically optimal portfolio is irrelevant if it creates stress or conflict.
By Miriam Feit
While we are young, too self involved to notice - Often too busy… and so we tend to forget… But as we grow older, more understanding, wiser - We realize it…but sometimes it’s too late for regret.
Pachter intertwines common wisdom, psychological perspectives, spiritual tenets and inspiring vignettes, anyone can relate to, to create a strategic game plan for success in its deepest, and most meaningful sense.
The beauty of dating is our ability to measure if a connection can be made. So much of this is done through research and information gleaned before we even meet. But the actual date allows us to see if the match made on paper can translate to chemistry and a lasting relationship.
By Ben Rothke
Despite having died nearly a century ago and with many of his writings over 150 years old, Rav Kook's exceptionalism lies in the fact that his ideas remain relevant even in 2026...
By Razey Segal
It is hard for me to believe that it is already your seventh yahrtzeit. It feels like you just left this world. The pain of your physical absence is so deep. I think a lot about you and Tatty, especially each Shabbos. I always sing Tatty’s favorite Friday night zemiros “Meein Olam Haba.” I […]
He was certainly not a charismatic hero in the mold of Moshe Dayan, nor a political visionary like Ben Gurion. Rather, he represented the disciplined, professional officer whose contributions were essential to the survival and consolidation of the State of Israel.
In fact, Israel maintains a maritime blockade on the Gaza Strip for one singular, non-negotiable reason: to prevent the unfettered smuggling of advanced weaponry, ballistic missiles, and dual-use materials to terrorist organizations.
By Chaim Saiman
My day job is teaching contract law, while I am learning Bava Batra at night. Often, the substance of these two periods of study can be remarkably similar. Yet the experience of engaging with them is fundamentally different. It's the difference between "learning" and "shteiging."
Not every bochur is built to be a talmid chacham in the classic sense, and that’s not a problem to be fixed. The pressure to fit one mold has real costs, making some question who they are and what they’re for.
By Rabbanit Dr. Adena Berkowitz
It is a Yiddish word derived from the German meaning to ascend or rise.
Ideally, it should be something we do in every aspect of our spiritual lives. Nevertheless, its most common use is to refer to the growth one experiences in intense Torah study.
There is a fundamental difference between the Torah we learn and the other disciplines that we study. In mathematics, my effort is immaterial. Either I know the equations or I do not.
Moish worked for us for over 40 years, and he often joked much later in life that if we hadn’t computerized our printing, he’d still be working on the linotype for The Jewish Press.
The UAE’s decision was undoubtedly at least partly driven by dissatisfaction with fellow Arab states for their lack of support during recent attacks by Iran.
Such displays of political courage – in the face of the growing antisemitic zeitgeist, especially in New York City – are rarer these days.
By Mendi Glik
The Zionist movement drew profound inspiration from Bar Kochba’s spirit of resistance. But it is deeply ironic that today, many self-proclaimed liberals continue to refer to our ancient homeland as Palestine with total disregard for the name’s origins.
There is a consensus amongst people in North America who are making aliyah, that it is at times a physically, emotionally and even financially draining endeavor. We joke that the reason it is so difficult is to test us. If you have the stamina and determination to get through the process, you’ll make it as an oleh.
Sometimes it is hard to name what you are feeling. Suddenly, you feel hot. You feel a bit of a burning session in your chest and on your neck. You can open a window to cool off, but you might not actually be addressing where that physical manifestation is coming from.
Your concern comes from a place of deep love and responsibility, which is admirable. At the same time, pushing too hard or framing this as “you’re wrong, I’m right” is likely to make your wife dig in further.
Financial research shows that wealth, even when substantial, rarely survives more than three generations. What seems permanent in one era often fades in the next.
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