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Parshas Eikev – “Discipline and Suffering”

As a parent, grandparent, and psychologist, I am often considered to be something of an expert on parenting and child-rearing. In that capacity, I...

RAA/Igud Harabonim Calls Upon Rabbis to Educate the American Jewish Community to Support In–Earth Burials and to Oppose Cremations

On Monday, July 24, 2017, the Igud Harabonim/Rabbinical Alliance of America (RAA/IGUD) convened at the Ahi Ezer Yeshiva Congregation, in Brooklyn, New York...

Pirkei Avos – Diversity in Judaism – Chapter 2, Mishna 1(b)

"Rabbi said: What is the proper path a person should choose for himself? Whatever brings glory to himself , and grants him glory...

Parshas V’eschanan – The Good, the Bad and the Beloved

Rabbeinu Nissim ben Reuven z”l (“Ran”; Gerona, Spain; 1320-1376) writes: When one wants to direct a person who has strayed back onto the proper...

Parshas V’Eschanan – “No Entitlement”  

This weeks parsha is one of the richest, for within it are to be found the pillars of our Judaism – the Ten Commandments,...

Mourning the Mikdash

In all of our offices, for my entire life, there has always been one painting on the wall. It is the painting of a...

Making Tisha B’Av Relevant

How do we mourn what we do not know? Tisha B’Av night we sit on the floor and read from the Book of Lamentations....

Parshas Devarim – Sense and Sensitivity 

This week we begin the Sefer {Book} of Devarim {Deuteronomy}. “Aileh haDevarim asher debair Moshe el kol Yisroel {These are the things that Moshe...

Parshas Devarim – Eternal Love

The Shabbos preceding Tisha B’Av is called Shabbos Chazon. It draws its name from the first word of the haftorah which contains Isaiah’s rebuke...

New Mikvah for 374-Year-Old Long Island Town

Ritual bath is another sign of increased Jewish observance in and around Merrick, N.Y Cindy Knoll, her husband Lawrence and their three grown...

Tisha B’Av – The Footsteps of Moshiach

“After the first set of Shofar blasts, a second set is sounded – in order to confuse the Soton.” Rosh HaShanah 16b On Rosh...

Parshat Mattot-Maasei – Transmitting Our Love for Eretz Yisroel

This is the matter that the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Tzelofhad, saying: Let them be married to whom they think best…...

The Sedra of the Week: The Timeless Values of Our People

PARSHAS MATTOS - TORAH VALUES In this week’s parsha, we are reminded of the timeless values which have distinguished our people throughout the centuries....

 ABCs of Tisha B’Av & the Three Weeks

The Jewish national period of mourning The "Three Weeks" between the 17th of Tammuz and the Tisha B'Av have historically been days of...

Avoiding Danger During the Three Weeks

The three weeks between the seventeenth of Tammuz and Tish’a b’Av, between the anniversary of the breach of the wall of Yerushalayim and the...

The Sedra of the Week – Pinchas: A Man For All Eras And All Places

At the end of last week’s Parsha, the pasuk says, “And Pinchas ben Elazar saw…” . The Medrash Rabba on those words asks,...

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