Sunday morning as I was packing up for my retreat, I threw in the Arnica even though I felt like my hand was already feeling and looking much better. It can’t hurt, I thought as I tossed in a few mo ...

The Mishna on our daf states that a gentile has the ability to effect nullification of his avodah zarah – his idolatrous relic. This is even more far-reaching than the halacha stated in the earlier ...

Rabbi Yehuda L Oppenheimer, former Rav at several congregations in the United States, lives in Israel and is an educator, writer, and licensed tour guide. He eagerly looks forward to showing you ...

It is somewhat puzzling that the article states that 100,000 banks will be issued, as aside from my example, I am aware of only one other in private hands; this item is quite scarce.

Chani resented the idea that being single meant she had nothing to do with herself all day. Unlike Mindy, she had a job, which had actual responsibilities.

Eliyahu shared his own pain. I’m Elyakim’s father, he said. He was a security guard at the Nova festival. He saved lives and was killed doing so. And you, Nachman, you survived. Tell me, why did y ...

Yad L’Achim, the organization known for rescuing Jewish women and children trapped in Arab villages, established Tu B’Av Together as a zechus for all singles in Klal Yisrael to merit finding their ...

According to our Tradition, not only was it decreed that the adult male population of the generation of the Midbar should wander for 40 years and die out without entering the Holy Land (except for Yeh ...

In much of the West, particularly in the United States, silence is often perceived as awkward, a sign of disengagement or lack of confidence. But in some East Asian cultures, such as Japan, silence co ...

Moshe gave the Shema knowing he would not cross the Jordan. He prepared his people not with possessions, but with patterns. That is the quiet brilliance of leadership: offering rhythm in place of prox ...

Some might argue that the old democratic socialists were comfortable with an Israel governed by the Labor Party – then a proud member of the Socialist International – during an era when the kibbut ...

Touro University Professor Baruch November’s new book, The Broken Heart Is The Master Key, employs a storytelling, cinematic style that fuses introspection and humor with perilous pain. The title of ...