Rav Dovid Feinstein’s Rulings On Hundreds Of Issues
Rav Dovid Feinstein, shlita Sefer Review By Rabbi Yair Hoffman The second volume of V’dibarta Bam with the p’sakim of Moreinu HaRav Dovid Feinstein, shlita, has just been released. It is authored by...
View ArticleCritic’s Choice: Doni Gross Presents Tzvi Silberstein’s ‘Kol Hakochavim’
By Rochelle Maruch Miller All the stars come out to shine on Tzvi Silberstein’s highly anticipated new album, “Kol Hakochavim: Voices of the Stars.” Throughout the years, a number of truly gifted...
View ArticleThe Chattanooga Tragedy
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman The look of that crumpled school bus sends a chill down the spine of every parent. Three of the children were in fourth grade, one was in kindergarten, and one in...
View ArticleMumbai Survivor Turns TEN
Moshe Holtzberg at 10 President Reuven Rivlin laid a wreathat a memorial ceremonyat the Taj Palace Hotel for the victimsof the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks No one can forget the tragic terror attack in...
View ArticleThe Provocative March
Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz By Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz RAV HA’KOTEL For almost two centuries, the Jewish nation has been torn into different streams. New ideas and trends entered the world stage....
View ArticleDinner For 5,000
Malcolm Hoenlein Rabbi Jonathan Sacks at a previous Kinus Senator Joseph Lieberman By Larry Gordon This used to be Jewish-organization dinner season—the weeks following the Jewish holidays up until...
View ArticleDissenting Views
By Larry Gordon It is becoming increasingly apparent that, more than any other movement or political philosophy that exists out there, it is the leftists that are the most intolerant and unyielding of...
View ArticleDating Forum
Dating Forum By Baila Sebrow Question I gave up on shadchanim a long time ago. They never helped me when I was young, and now for sure they won’t. The only guys they ever redd to me were weirdos....
View ArticleDATING FORUM
By Baila Sebrow Question I’ve been divorced for a few years. I started dating someone a while ago, but we are both dealing with so many problems that we are wondering how we can make a second marriage...
View ArticleJerusalem’s Streets: Stories Behind The Names
Menachem Ussishkin (right) with Albert Einstein, Chaim Weizmann, and Ben-Zion Mossinson By Gedaliah Borvick My brother-in-law and I have a fun sightseeing ritual that we have been performing for the...
View ArticleToldos: Generations
From Where I Stand By Rabbi Yossy Goldman ואלה תולדות יצחק בן אברהם “And these are the generations of Yitzchak, son of Avraham.” —Bereishis 25:19 The subject matter of this week’s parashah is indeed...
View ArticleShas For Sale
By Rabbi Meir Orlian Yosef owned a small Shas that he had bought six years before when he had first entered yeshiva. It was in good condition but an old edition. When Yosef got engaged, his chavrusa...
View ArticleStretching The Topic
By Mordechai Schmutter Ever since I wrote a couple of articles this past summer about my herniated disc, readers have been writing in to ask how it’s doing. Though that’s not how they ask it. Mostly,...
View ArticleA Light In The Dark
By David Seidemann They came after us—first with knives, stabbing our soldiers, citizens, and visitors wherever they could find us. It quickly became known as the “knife intifada.” Then came the fires...
View ArticleIsrael’s Raging Fires Come Under Control
On November 26, an American-dispatched Boeing 747 supertanker plane helped extinguisha forest fi re that broke out in Nataf, near Jerusalem. By Sean Savage November 28—Improving weather conditions, a...
View ArticleRebbetzin Gita Cohen, ע״ה
At the levayah for Rebbetzin Gita Cohen An Appreciation By Rabbi Yair Hoffman This week marked the tragic loss of a remarkable woman, Rebbetzin Gita Cohen, a’h. Her life was replete with sacrifice for...
View ArticleWhite Socks, Baby Carriages
By Larry Gordon Two things about spending this past Shabbos in Boro Park remain indelibly engraved in my mind’s eye. One is a constant and has been present over the many decades, and the other is a...
View ArticleConquering With Kindness
Rabbi Mendel Alperowitz, newly appointed Chabad Shliach to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, delivering a d’var Torah at the 33rd Annual Kinus Hashluchim Mr. Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of the...
View ArticleSenator Kaminsky Visits SKA
Welcome Back, Kaminsky On December 1, Senator Todd Kaminsky spoke to students at SKA High School for Girls about government, civics, and the importance of being involved in the community.
View ArticleBolton Headlines Jewish Chamber Of Commerce Event To Support Israel At UN
It was blistering cold in midtown Manhattan on Sunday afternoon as former UN ambassador John Bolton and other leaders stood outside the UN, in the presence of major national media outlets, urging...
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