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Pinchas & The Three Weeks

The period between the Fast of the 17th of Tamuz and Tishah B’Av is known in halachah as “Bein Ha’meitzarim” / “Between the...

5 Strategies to Find Balance in Life

If you think going to the gym is a guilty pleasure, read this article. Balancing marriage, parenting, work, and life responsibilities can feel...

Empowering Parents; Everything Is Inscribed

The new issue of Klal Perspectives, "Technology and the 21st Century Orthodox Community," is now available, and for my money it is one...

Parshas Balak – “Balaam and Dostoevsky”

Frustration. Disillusionment. But also insight and a lifelong intellectual perspective. That is how I would describe the experience I am about to share...

Parshat Balak – Behind the Smiles

If someone were to read Parshat Balak objectively without any previous knowledge, he could easily get the impression that Bilaam is, at the...

Prominent Philanthropist Ralph Tawil Remembered at Israel Funeral

A large crowd gathered in Israel this week to publicly pay tribute to prominent community businessman and philanthropist Ralph Tawil, who died last...

Parshat Chukat – Perfect Vision and Life

Why does one portion follow another, especially when they appear to be out of order? Rabbi Abittan often taught us that the parshiot,...

Parshas Chukas – The Extent of Reward

HASHEM said to Moshe, “Do not fear him, for into your hands have I given him, his entire people, and his land; you...

The Loss of Elie Wiesel, a’h

Elie Wiesel died the morning of Saturday, July 2, 2016. I learned of it first from a call from my friend, David Harman,...

Pirkei Avos – Laughing in the Face of Reality (Chapter 3, Mishna 3)

"Rabbi Chanina ben (son of) Tradyon said, if two people sit together and do not share words of Torah between them, it is...

Elie Wiesel, Author, Activist and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Passes Away at 87

Holocaust survivor challenged world leaders to fight anti-Semitism and pursue peace Elie Wiesel, who perpetuated the memory of the Holocaust, championed international recognition...

Parshas Korach – “Better They Learn from Me…”

Conflict resolution is one of the most important tasks in human relations at every level. Open up any newspaper, and you will read...

Rabbi Maurice Lamm, 86, Author, Teacher, Scholar, Pulpit Rabbi

He wrote “The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning” and many other popular works Rabbi Maurice Lamm, author of The Jewish Way in...

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...

Women and Mitzvot

Setting the foundation for Jewish family life Success in life is predicated on two distinct undertakings: On one hand, an organism must advance...

Parshas Shelach – Stronger than G-d

But the men who had ascended with him said, “We cannot ascend to that people for it is stronger than us!” — Bemidbar...

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