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In summer, fig trees bear their succulent fruit. In the fall, boughs of olives suggest the impending harvest. By winter, citrons hang heavy with their magnificent scent. And by spring, flowers...

Parashat Korach 5767 Part One: The Soldiers of King David Part Two: To Merit vs. To Be Chosen Part Three: Your Revolution Part One: The Soldiers of King David I recall...

Land of My Birth – During the year 1944 (5704-5), some soldiers from the “Jewish Brigade” were stationed in Egypt. This was a Jewish fighting force that was part of the...

Part One: Living The Miracle Part Two: Larger than Life Part Three: Looking Back Part One: Living The Miracle In the wake of the tragic episode of the meraglim (spies), who...

A kilometer away from our community of Rosh Tzurim in Gush Etzion, is a dirt road named Derech Avot, the way of the Patriarchs. In this area our forefathers and ancestors...

On Thursday May 31, Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, his wife Chavi, and a number of other OU representatives, visited Sderot. Below are the messages Rabbi Weinreb sent while there. I....

Land of My Birth – The main link between Eretz Yisrael and the Diaspora during the time of exile was through a “Shadar” – a messenger sent to collect donations for...

For a few days, I thought that perhaps I was misremembering. But as the days after Pesach continued to flow by, it was clear. Something was different. In years past, almost...

I cannot sleep; your pearly dawn beckons. I arise and watch the clouds move across a pink and blue-gray sky. The necklace of streetlights goes out and the sunrise illuminates the...

Land of My Birth – Rabbi Yehuda Alcharizi was born in 1170. He was the last poet in a long and distinguished line of Jewish poets in Spain, and nobody as...