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....

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Summertime finds our family upstate. Our development is blessed to have a magnificent shul, with a giant oak tree right in...

By: Rabbi Pinchas Winston And now, O Israel, what does God, your God, demand of you? Only to fear God, your God, to walk in...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Parshas Va’eschanan is always read on Shabbos Nachamu. V’eschanan. The parsha in which Moshe begs and pleads with HaShem to be...

By: Rabbi Label Lam Who can assure that this heart should remain theirs, to fear Me and observe all My commandments, all the days, so...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin The Nine Days. Tisha B’Av. A time to remember the churban Beis HaMikdash, the devastation of Yerushalayim, the pain and persecution...

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

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin In parshas Matos, members of the tribes of Gad and Reuven, approach Moshe, Elazar the Kohen, and the princes of the...

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...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This week’s parsha carries the name of Pinchas, son of Elazar, grandson of the Kohein Gadol, Aaron. The backstory to this week’s...

By: Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Love is an emotion. It is a feeling, often a very passionate one that we have toward another person,...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin This week’s parsha tells us of Balak, King of Moav, and Bilaam, a sorcerer and practitioner of black magic. Balak saw Bnei...

By: Shlomo Katz In this week’s parashah, we read how Bilam tried to curse Bnei Yisrael. Pirkei Avot (ch.5) teaches that evil-doers like Bilam do...

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Parsahas Chukas. The end of an era. Bnei Yisroel’s forty year journey through the desert is coming to a close. Forty...

By: Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky Crime and Punishment. In a corporeal world, the correlation of a jail sentence to a crime does not symbolize a cogent...

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