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Yom Kippur – Let’s Make a Deal

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...

Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) – Guide for the Perplexed

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

Rosh HaShanah Haftara – We Are All Chana

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...

The Uniqueness Of Rosh HaShana’s Judgment

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)...

Parshas Nitzavim and Vayeilich – The Song of Life

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...

Parshas Netzavim – Where Torah & Life Meet

By: Rabbi Eliyahu Hoffman Parshas Nitzavim contains a section called Parshas ha-Teshuva, The Chapter of Repentance; so called because in this chapter Moshe encourages Bnei...

Parshas Ki Savo – The Planner

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...

Parshas Ki Tavo – “Walls Have Ears?”

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...

Parshas Ki Seitzei – Deja Vu

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...

Parshas Ki Teitzei – Clarifying the Laws of War

By: HaRav Yehuda Kroizer “When you will go out to war against your enemies, and Hashem your G-d will deliver him into your hand and...

Parshas Shoftim – Judges, Kings, Workers & Scholars

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...

Parshas Shoftim –  Guarding the Gates

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.”...

Parshas Re’eh  – You Only Live Once

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...

Parshas Re’eh – ”What’s Missing In This Picture?”

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....

Parshas Eikev – Dreaming But Not Sleeping

By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin Nineteenth of Av 5776, August 23, 2016. Hard to believe that it’s been seven years since the petira, passing of my...

Parshas Eikev – “Discipline and Suffering”

By: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb As a parent, grandparent, and psychologist, I am often considered to be something of an expert on parenting and child-rearing....

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