After a gut-wrenching week of tears and grief Shabbat finally approaches. It is difficult to imagine the sorrow and agony flooding the hearts of the Jewish community of Pittsburgh and...
A charitable pledge constitutes a vow that must be fulfilled. However, like many vows, it can be nullified if proper regret is presented to a religious court, if it is...
We know that there is no extra letter in the Torah. Everything is said for multiple reasons so when there is a glaring repetition, the commentators scramble to explain it....
Name: Anthony La Russa, Jr. Born: October 4, 1944 in Tampa Florida Hall of Fame induction: July 27, 2014 Baseball History: Tony is the former manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Athletics...
Chicken Marbella is one of my favorite chicken dishes – the original recipe has a lot of sugar and a million ingredients and steps. This is a lightened up version that still packs the...
Name: Simcha Eichenstein Lives: On 44th Street, in Borough Park Married/Children: Married with 4 beautiful children bli ayin hora Age: 35 Where did you grow up? Born and raised in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Party: Democrat District:...
Matar and her husband gathered like-minded people around them, and in 1993, almost as an instant response to Oslo, established what was initially called “Women for Israel’s Tomorrow.’ Israelis first learned...
The biblical lists of generations include descriptions of very long lives. For example, Adam lived 930 years (Gen. 5:5), Noach 950 (9:29), and the longest — Mesushelach 969 (5:27). How...
Avraham is Divinely instructed to heed Sarah’s stern warnings about Yishma’el’s dangerous influence upon Yitzchak. Though he is wary of dispatching his older son Yishma’el, Avraham accedes to his wife’s...
