admin | July 8, 2022
Any Jew who survived the Holocaust is a brand plucked from the fire (Zechariah 3:2). That is especially true of any European Jew, and even more so of any European Jew who survived the worst of the Holocaust: Auschwitz and then the Death March to Mauthausen in 1945
admin | July 8, 2022
Destroying lives through false accusations, innuendo and distortions has never been easier. In his book Other Peoples Money and How Bankers Use It, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously wrote, Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.
admin | July 8, 2022
Question: Where I live, I see Chabad shluchim offering Jewish passerby to put on tefillin. Is this of any value if they are otherwise non-observant
admin | July 4, 2022
The Jewish obligation to observe commandments is traditionally divided along male/female lines: men pray three times daily, while women dont have to; men put on tefillin, while women do not. Some womens recent efforts to observe the religious privileges theyre exempt from have made ripples in the Jewish world, and even the news. But what if we told you that the foundation for all this was wrong
admin | July 4, 2022
SUMMER VACATION SERIES Edited by Aryeh Werth Is it proper to go on vacation to a place with no minyan? What about achildrens day trip where there will be no minyan? For many people the concept of a vacation is time away from the usual routine
admin | July 4, 2022
This week, I printed out a copy of the declaration of intent to become a United States citizen made by my great-grandfather, Wolf Landsman, in the city court of Utica, New York. My sister Ellen found this document a few years ago, which is dated July 8, 1893
admin | June 26, 2022
Four decades ago, Israel learned that Uri Zohar, its best known comedian, was abandoning bohemia for the Haredi world. About that time, I was writing an article for The Jerusalem Post in which Zohars name came up.
admin | June 26, 2022
Rabbi Dayan received the following letter from one of his readers: The Business Weekly column featured a story about a grandfather who offered to pay his son-in-law to learn with his own son to make a siyum at his bar mitzvah. I was surprised by the application of the Rema (C.M. 81:1) to this situation
admin | June 26, 2022
(JTA) For years I worked in an office where, in order to make an outside phone call, you had to dial 9 plus 1 plus your number. At least once a week, the police would show up in the lobby because someone had accidentally dialed 9-1-1
admin | June 26, 2022
They shall make themselves tzitzis on the corners of their garments and they shall place upon the tzitzis of each corner a thread of turquoise wool. (Bamidbar 15:38) Expounding on the intent of the mitzvah of tzitizis, our Sages say we should identify as servants of Hashem. The Talmud (Menachos 43b) cites R Meir, who said that the punishment for not attaching white strings is greater than the punishment for not attaching techeles (blue strings)
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