By: Rabbi Yochanan Zweig “The Torah that Moshe commanded us is a heritage to the Congregation of Jacob”(33:4) Simchas Torah is a day in which we...

By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky The last verses of the Torah encapsulate a glorious career of leadership of the father of all prophets, Moshe, into a...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin USHPIZIN – Aramaic for guests. Seven nights of Succos. Seven exalted, spiritual guests. We welcome the holy neshamaos of the raya mehemna, the...

By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky The last verses of the Torah encapsulate a glorious career of leadership of the father of all prophets, Moshe, into a...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin My mother, the Rebbetzin a”h, would often lead Hineni tours to Israel. Instead of doing the typical tourist sightseeing, Hineni tours...

By:  Amb. (ret.) Yoram Ettinger Yom Kippur is considered to be a Super Sabbath (Shabbat Shabbaton in Hebrew) – a soul-searching opportunity for pious...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin On the first day of Rosh HaShana, the haftara is the story of Chana, from the Book of Shmuel. It is...

By: Rabbi Yissocher Frand The second Mishna of tractate Rosh Hashana teaches “On Rosh Hashana all who enter the world pass before Him (for judgment)...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This Shabbos, we read parshiyos Nitzavim and Vayeilech. We are coming towards the end of the Chumash, and the final days...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Sometimes, one writes an article that touches a familiar chord with the reader, evoking a memory. This past week, I wrote about...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb We all have our secret lives. I don’t mean to say that each of us has a sinister side, which we...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This week’s parsha, Ki Seitzei, includes seventy-four of the Torah’s six-hundred-thirteen mitzvos, the most of any one parsha. Amongst them are...

By: Shlomo Katz Rabbeinu Nissim z”l (14th century; Barcelona, Spain) writes that, unlike other nations, the Jews have a dual judicial system. Every nation has...

By:  Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This week’s parsha opens with the pasuk, “Shoftim v’shotrim titen lecha b’chol sh’arecha, Appoint judges and officers in all your gates.”...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin “Re’eh – Look – See. I set before you today bracha, blessing and klalla, curse.” (Devarim 11:28). Moshe is speaking to Bnei...

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb The old and crumbling building housed a synagogue that was a “gift” from Joseph Stalin to the Jews of Odessa....