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The Nine Days are not my favorite time of year. I imagine this is the case for most people. It’s hot outside, the kids are bored and we can’t take them...

Tisha B’Av is not everyone’s favorite day, but it is one of mine- not because it is enjoyable, but because of what it represents. I like Tisha B’Av because of what...

On April 11, 1944, a young Anne Frank wrote in her diary: Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly until...

President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu attended the memorial ceremony for Revisionist Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky on the 77th anniversary of his death Sunday evening. The ceremony took place...

Scientifically speaking, sound is a vibration that travels through the air and is received by our ears. At some frequencies, the sounds can’t be heard, at some, they can.  It is...

“Today I recount my failings” – Genesis 41:9 I’d like to share a recent incident in which I was involved. It’s a little embarrassing but I think the moral of the...

Some of my earliest memories are of brown cardboard boxes with lids, full of files. As soon as I was old enough, I learned how to build and collapse these boxes...

There is a famous parable of three bricklayers building a Synagogue They are asked, “What are you doing?” The first says, “I am laying bricks.” The second says, “I am building...