28 Jan Kashruth Question of the Week
What’s the status of a pareve soup cooked in a pareve bowl in a Fleishig microwave? It’s still pareve but can not be eaten together with milk. For example, if someone...
What’s the status of a pareve soup cooked in a pareve bowl in a Fleishig microwave? It’s still pareve but can not be eaten together with milk. For example, if someone...
The Power of a single action Wise Old Man A retired man moves near a junior high school. He spends the first few weeks of retirement in peace and quiet. However, when...
Being that the Super Bowl is this Sunday, I would like to weigh-in with some thoughts. At the outset, I would like to make a very un-American confession: I really...
The parsha tells us (Shemos 12:38) that when Bnai Yisroel left Mitzrayim a tremendous group of converts left with them. The Midrash explains that this was Moshe Rabbeinu’s original idea;...
Just when you thought our society could not get more morally depraved, on January 12th, the annual No Pants Subway Ride took place in cities across twenty-five countries around the...
Before Benei Yisrael left Egypt, God tells Moshe, “Please speak to the nation that they should each borrow from his fellow…silver and gold utensils” (Shemot 11:2). Moshe is to instruct...
Parshat Bo chronicles the dramatic redemption of the Jewish people from a two hundred-year nightmare of backbreaking slavery and oppression. The great “night of redemption” is punctuated by celebratory rituals...
I. ACCESS TO ERUV MATZAH Many people have their own private eruvin, structures that allow them to carry on Shabbos. They do this with one or more neighbors by ensuring the...
Dear Rabbi and Shira I’m not sure what to do. I married my wife over a year ago thinking that she was a typical woman from a similar background as myself....