By: Rabbi Osher Jungreis In this week’s parsha, the history of the Jewish people commences. Until now, in the portions of Genesis and Noah, we...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Eis tzarah hee l’Yaakov, It is a time of deep pain and tragedy for Klal Yisroel. We are all walking around...

By:  Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb There are many words in the English language that originally had great power but have become watered down over the...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This week, Shabbos Bereishis, we once again begin reading the cycle of Torah portions. The word “Torah” means “instructions” or “teachings”....

By: Rabbi Pinchas Winston In the beginning, God made the Heaven and the Earth. (Bereishis 1:1) The words are so incredibly simple, and yet, of course,...

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...