The Great Dialogue
By Norman Lamm, zt’l
The Jewish year has two peaks or high points, one coming in the Fall with the months of Ellul and Tishrei, and the other in the...
The Shattered Picture Frame
By Yochanan Gordon
The 3rd day of Tamuz is universally recognized as the day upon which the Lubavitcher Rebbe passed away. It is usually around that time that I use...
Wisdom from Devorah Paley and Asi Tzobel
Thoughts This Week
By Sivan Rahav-Meir
Can you experience national unity on Zoom? Ten-thousand women from all sectors of society registered for a broadcast that was launched by Devorah Paley to...
Parashat Vayikra: Managing Religious Guilt
Failure is inherent to human behavior and deeply woven into religious experience. Despite our best efforts to rise above our weaknesses and to transcend our limitations, we all, inevitably,...
Musings Of A Shliach From Montana: Playing the Long Game
If one is seeking instant gratification, being a shliach of the Rebbe, zt’l, is not the right gig, and with that “need” it would be hard to live as...
Quicken Loans and the Issue of Ribis
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Agudas Yisroel recently published a Psak Din signed by leading Gedolim about the prohibition in borrowing money from Quicken Loans without a Heter Iskah. Among those...
Pesach Lessons From VR
Technology is taboo in certain communities. We live in a community that for all intents and purposes, embraces technological advancement, even while the yeshivos constantly decry its pitfalls and...
Vayikra: The Calling
Rav Yitzchok Breiter, Hy’d, was one of the great Breslover manhigim of Pre-War Europe. As one of the first Jews in Poland to make the difficult journey to Uman...
Personal Prayer vs. Communal Prayer
By Rabbi Dovid M. Cohen
Last summer, my family and I traveled to the Poconos for a vacation. For logistical reasons, we planned to spend Shabbos by ourselves and without...
Heard In The Matzah Factory No More: A 5TJT Fan Relates
By Chaim Yehuda Meyer
I read with great interest Larry Gordon’s article, “The History of Cake” (March 17, 2023). Mr. Gordon reminiscences about the Passover pastries from his youth, which,...
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Netanyahu Expected to Freeze Judicial Reforms Amid Mass Civil Disobedience
(March 27, 2023 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to freeze his government’s judicial reform program on Monday.
He is set to deliver a speech...
True Character
Each one of Masechet Avot’s perakim begins with a central teaching. The fourth perek opens with Ben Zoma’s definition of four characters: the...
Heard In The Matzah Factory No More: A 5TJT Fan Relates
By Chaim Yehuda Meyer
I read with great interest Larry Gordon’s article, “The History of Cake” (March 17, 2023). Mr. Gordon reminiscences about the Passover...