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Parshas Chaya Sarah–Hopes And Fears

The sedra of Chayei Sarah focuses on two episodes, both narrated at length and in intricate detail. Abraham buys a field with a cave...

Parshas Chaya Sarah – Tips on Finding Your Shidduch

In this parsha we discover wisdom to facilitate our shidduch search–what to look for and what to avoid are defined. A careful study of the...

Kollel Ayshel Avraham Celebrates 10th Chag HaSemicha on Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

A palpable electricity filled the air at the Aur Torah Sephardic Minyan of Staten Island on Wednesday evening, October 10th (Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan) as...

Parshas Vayera – Torah Manners

This week’s parsha imparts to us lessons for life–how we should conduct ourselves in our daily affairs and in our relationships. Interestingly enough, these teachings...

More than 1 Million Jews to Participate in 6th Annual Shabbat Project in Over 1,400 Cities Around the World

This year’s Shabbat Project to include a group of mountaineers summiting Kilimanjaro, a Friday night meditative gathering in Long Island held in near-complete darkness,...

Parshas Lech Lecha–”Ancestral Decisions”

Most people do not give much thought to their ancestral origins. But some do, and I am one of them. I often wonder about...

Parshas Lech Lecha – The Story of Our People

In this week’s parsha, the history of the Jewish people commences. Until now, in the portions of Genesis and Noah, we studied about the...

AFSI’s New Program “If Not Us” Takes Students on Tour Focusing on the Life of Ari Fuld, ztk’l

Wednesday, October 3rd was an important day for American students studying in Israel. Two weeks ago, a hero of the Jewish people, Ari Fuld,...

Parshas Noach – Drowning in a Lack of Heaven

The Talmud says that Noach was also included in the decree of destruction and would have drowned in the Great Flood with the rest...

Parshas Noach–Do We See Ourselves As G-d Sees Us?

There is a famous Midrash based on this week’s parsha that asks, “If there are so many ways through which G-d could have saved Noah, then why did...

In Israel, Learning Torah Has No Age Limit

Kollel program offers Jewish study, a warm meal and companionship to Holocaust survivors and other elderly in Jerusalem, Ashdod, Ashkelon and Tzfat Yosef Damsker, 86,...

Parshas Bereishis – The Secrets of Creation

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

Sukkot: The Harvest Festival and Arrival of Autumn

Celebrating a weeklong emphasis on food, family, friends, tradition and the great outdoors. We are twice blessed. Sukkot, the harvest festival—and sometimes called the “Jewish...

Sukkos–Zman Simchaseinu; The Time of Our Happiness

Throughout the works of our Sages, we find that the holiday of Sukkos is referred to as "Zman Simchaseinu," "The time of our happiness."...

Chag HaSukkot–When Will My Actions Reach The Level of My Forefathers?

Having come through Rosh Hashana, the ten days of repentance and Yom Kippur, we busy ourselves with preparations for Sukkot. If we recall that...

Simchas Torah: Dancing With The Bride

"The Torah that Moshe commanded us is a heritage to the Congregation of Jacob"(33:4) Simchas Torah is a day in which we celebrate the Torah....

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