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Parashat Ki Tisa 5768 Were it necessary to designate parashat Ki Tisa by one word, I would choose “embarrassment” – embarrassment caused by the avoda zara performed by many of the...

Land of My Birth – The people of the First Aliyah were religious, and they did not abandon the Torah even after arriving in Eretz Yisrael. The pioneers of the Second...

This year is Shmitta. After six years of working the land there is a mitzvah to let it lie fallow. Perhaps this is the first shmita year since we made our...

It started as a small change in the tone of conversation in the office. I had my head down so I barely noticed the shift from boisterous, animated conversation to the...

BS”D Parshat Terumah 5768 We know that Moshe built the Mishkan, and that Shlomo HaMelech built the first Bet HaMikdash, and Ezra the Scribe built the second Bet HaMikdash, but who will...

Land of My Birth – The title of this article may well conjure up a romantic scene with a lake of swans and ducks, but in reality it is the name...

The Creator chose to begin the halachic code of the Written Torah with matters pertaining to the master-slave relationship. This was done, I believe, because Jews having just undergone two centuries...

Gush Etzion, or the Etzion Bloc, is known as the southern gateway to Jerusalem. This very strategic area contained the block of communities that defended the southern approach to Jerusalem against...

Land of My Birth – Rabbi Avraham Shalush was a rich businessman and a Torah scholar who lived a life of honor and wealth in the port city Oran, in Algeria....

Holy and Secular – The day will come when “The Book of Sderot” will be written. Many good people will appear in the book. It will tell about inhabitants of Sdeirot...