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Land of My Birth – The country was still young, and the security force in the Knesset was not well organized yet. This is the only reasonable way to explain how...

Parashat Shemot 5768 Read last year’s dvar torah – Parashat Shemot 5767 Parashat Shemot 5768 In your Torah experiences of yeshiva learning or rabbis’ speeches etc., did you ever come across...

Land of My Birth – In the beginning of the eighteenth century the Jewish community of Jerusalem grew, reaching a total of about 10,000 by the year 1741. The area was...

Parashat Vayechi 5768 and The Tenth of Tevet (Read last year’s dvar torah too – Parashat Vayechi 5767) PART ONE: The Tenth of Tevet PART TWO: I Would Prefer Not To Be Here...

Prologue Before making aliyah, we owned a car. I mention this only to point out it was seldom that I rode the city buses. In fact, I can only recall one...

Parashat Vayechi 5768 Parashat Vayechi – If you will it, it is not a dream Text Message Responsa Stories of Rabbenu – Our Rabbi: Ha-Rav Tzvi Yehudah Ha-Cohain Kook – Mourning...

Holy and Secular – Just as I was leaving my car, the announcer began a curious monologue. It was a little before eight o’clock in the morning, and my radio was...

Parashat Vayigash 5768 PART ONE: Breaking Out of Our 4 Walls PART TWO: Man’s Best Efforts, God’s Decree PART ONE: Breaking Out of Our 4 Walls A year has past since...

OK, truth be told, I didn’t actually take a taxi to the capital of Hezbollah-land. But judging by the number of cabs who flatly refused to take me from Beer Sheva...

When my daughter, Ayelet, was a student several years ago at the Bar Ilan University, she was asked to join a group of orthodox students doing Gishur work (bridging the gap)...