A little more than 50 years ago, on December 6, 1975, a makeshift Shabbat prayer service was held in the cavernous ballroom of Lincoln Square Synagogue, which was then located on West 69th Street and ...

There was once a public debate between a rabbi and an astrophysicist regarding the nature of our universe. The astrophysicist, representing the atheist perspective, confidently approached the podium ...

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s request to Israeli president Isaac Herzog for a presidential pardon in his ongoing trials for alleged corruption – which began in May 2020 – has understandably triggered ...

In the 1970s, the only English newspaper that catered to an Orthodox audience was The Jewish Press. It was read – it seemed – in every religious home. It formed the discussions for the week, the ...

The Gemara on this daf continues its discussion of “Ein mevi’in kodshim l’beis hapisul” – one may not limit the time of the consumption of an offering, thereby causing the sacrificial animals to enter ...

A drawing from Bernard Germain de Lacépède’s “Histoire Naturelle des Poissons” (Natural History of Fish, 1798) Peru u’revu, the commandment to have children, is the Torah’s first mitzvah and, in fact, ...

According to the Chofetz Chaim, anyone can start one. He suggests the following steps: After separating maaser or tithe funds, one-third of the amount should be saved towards a free loan fund until ...

One reason given by the Elya Rabbah (Simon 492, seif 3) for these fast days is to atone for the possible sin of doing work on the recently passed Chol HaMoed of Sukkos or Pesach. One can immediately ...

The Dutchess County Conservative Party was promoting a new governor for next year. The sign “Retire Hochul” said it all. In a bucolic setting at the northern end of the Metro-North’s Hudson line, ...

Bronze sculpture of an ibex from Iran, 1st millennium BCE. Fishes are not named in either sedra – only the requirement of having fins and scales. Be aware that fish can have different types of scales ...

In Va’etchanan, we declared the Shema: “Hear, O Israel…” A moment of thunder and tenderness, of inheritance wrapped in presence. In Eikev, we continue it, not in recitation, but in enactment. Here, in ...

In the financial world, few things offer more comfort than receiving a large sum of cash. The challenge is how to handle a windfall responsibly based on the markets, economic environment, and personal ...