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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)...

Parashat Vayigash 5768 Parashat Vayigash – I Feel Your Pain Text Message Responsa Stories of Rabbenu – Our Rabbi: Ha-Rav Tzvi Yehudah Ha-Cohain Kook – Honoring Parents, Netilat Yadayim Shut She’eilat...

Land of My Birth – The Second World War had ended, and the Jewish survivors were set free from the death camps and from their hiding places. A movement sprung up,...

Summary of part 1: The residents of England lived in constant fear of the German bombs during the Second World War. The children’s Chanukah party was interrupted by an air-raid alarm,...

Land of My Birth – The “first Hebrew city,” established in 1909 as a neighborhood named “Achuzat Bayit,” was planned from the very beginning as a modern city. The streets were...

Parashat Vayishlach 5768 Part One: The Rav and the Rebbe Part Two: Jewish Courage Part One: The Rav and the Rebbe I am writing this on the fourth of Kislev 5768,...

Parshat Vayishlach 5768 Parshat Vayishlach – “I Buried Her on the Way”  Text Message Responsa  Stories of Rabbeinu – Our Rabbi: Ha-Rav Tzvi Yehuda HaKohen Kook – Disparaging Torah Scholars, The...

An arrested refugee alerts one Jew to his undetected self-hate.

She is sad. People talk of dividing her soul in two, of breaking her heart into a million little pieces, of placing her very essence on the cutting board. Do you...

Israelis love to get down on Jerusalem. Every time new statistics are published, pundits bemoan the steady decline of the city and how much better other cities in the country are...