It’s a chassidus best known for its stirring melodies, but those tunes were the souls of the rebbes who wrote them. Today’s Modzhitzer Rebbe, Rav Chaim Shaul Taub, is the next link, leading his flock for the past decade with a combination of his Ponevezh-trained, brilliant analytical mind together with the heart of a Modzhitz niggun.
The challenges of power and protektziya can corrupt even the most idealistic of politicians, Yet for decades, senior MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni has stayed out of the branja.
Rav Michoel Ber Weissmandl is best known for his efforts to save Jews during the Holocaust, but his work after the war was no less heroic. From his yeshivah in Mount Kisco, Reb Michoel Ber served as a mentor and father figure to war orphans and Americans alike, raising them as if they were his own
New European Union labeling guidelines mean that Israel will be isolated and punished like no other nation on Earth. The Europeans call it a technicality. Others see a dangerous step toward adoption of the boycott movement’s goals
The shidduch crisis is painfully unfolding each day — and individuals with a conscience feel compelled to get involved. But will a well-meaning amateur wreck a shidduch before it’s even begun? What newbie matchmakers should know before attempting to split the sea.
In preparation for the Shabbos Project, 2,000 New York women join together to bake a record-breaking-ly long challah, sharing the beauty of Shabbos with all of Hashem’s children
