Torah

By: Rabbi Yisroel Ciner This week we begin the Sefer {Book} of Devarim {Deuteronomy}. “Aileh haDevarim asher debair Moshe el kol Yisroel {These are the things that...

By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis PARSHAS DEVARIM–ETERNAL LOVE  Is it possible for a person to really cleanse himself and start life anew? And here too, the prophet assures us, “Let...

The Jewish national period of mourning By: Rabbi Shraga Simmons The "Three Weeks" between the 17th of Tammuz and the Tisha B'Av have historically been days of misfortune...

By: Ariel Natan Pasko What did I do to help bring the Third Temple today? A question every Jew should ask themselves everyday, especially now...

By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky During the presidential run of 1992, candidate Bill Clinton published a book entitled Putting People First. He had it right. He just wasn’t...

By: Slovie Jungreis-Wolff As a little girl, I loved the wedding scene in Fiddler on the Roof. I watched it over and over again — friends and family...

When should you speak out and when should you remain silent? To what extent do you have to take responsibility and when should you...

The period between the Fast of the 17th of Tamuz and Tishah B’Av is known in halachah as “Bein Ha’meitzarim” / “Between the Troubles.”...

I currently attend a college in the U.S., and lately there has been much controversy surrounding “safe spaces,” where students can retreat to avoid...

For the first time since it was burned in the Holocaust and destroyed - Hebrew inscriptions from the excavations of the Great Synagogue in...

Yes this a bit unconventional, but let's go with it for a mere moment. Take a breather, lay back and close your eyes. Think...

By: Rabbi Shlomo Riskin “My nation, remember what Balak the king of Moab advised and what Bil’am the son of Be’or…answered him in order that...

The irony of the Jeffrey Epstein case breaking wide open this past week, as the week’s Torah reading was Balak, screams out for more...

HASHEM said to Moshe, “Do not fear him, for into your hands have I given him, his entire people, and his land; you shall...

Parshas Chukas opens with the enigmatic words, “This is the decree of the Torah... and take unto you a Parah Adumah - a Red Heifer...” (Numbers 19:1)...

On July 2, 2019, the Rabbinical Alliance of America/Igud HaRabbonim (RAA/Igud) assembled for its monthly Rosh Chodesh (Tammuz) Seudah and Conference. This conference was...