The gemara in Kiddushin (32a) cites a debate about whether a teacher/Rav can waive the honor due him from a student- to be mochel al kevodo. Rav Yosef allowed this...
Well, another Shavuos is already upon us. With pleasant thoughts of sweet blintzes and scented flowers, Shavuos 5769 is almost here! But, it is imperative for the thinking Jew to...
The Klausenberger Rebbe zt”l, R’ Yekusiel Yehuda Halberstam, lost his wife and eleven children in the Holocaust. After the war, he gathered a small community of followers who had also...
The scene is familiar. An auditorium or hall is stuffed full of bodies hunched over books. In the corner, there’s a table bearing snacks and caffeinated beverages. It could be...
Name: Clint Jackson Frazier Nick Name: Red Thunder Born: September 6, 1994 (age 24) in Decatur, Georgia Height: 6’ 1” Drafted: The Cleveland Indians selected Frazier with the fifth overall selection of the 2013 draft. The Indians traded...
I. AMEN’S LIMITED IMPACT In the mid-1500’s, a Rabbi Yisrael in Adrianople initiated a new synagogue practice. On arrival in shul in early morning, a group of men would alternate reciting...
Hon. Joseph Lieberman was a U.S. senator from Connecticut for twenty-four years. At the end of his service in January 2013, he was Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental...
The Book of Breishit portrays three vastly different visits to Yerushalayim. Avraham first encounters this city after intervening in a raging world war. Years later, an acquiescent Avraham and his...
We read in Parashat Behukotai the Torah’s description of the dreadful curses which G-d threatens to send upon us if we disobey His commands. Toward the end of this section,...