Point of View
It never loses its shock value: The death toll on Israel’s roads has surpassed the number of people killed by Palestini ...
Outlook
If one accurately describes some physical or social phenomenon, there will be a hint to it in the Torah that can be ...
Text Messages
Great care must be taken not to presumptuously place the blame for Jew-hatred or anything else on specific groups or in ...
Guestlines
The material I had prepared to discuss with the girls was going to have to take a backseat. One question led to t ...
Second Thoughts
To deliver sermons to others is relatively straightforward. To look inward and work on enhancing one’s own connectedness with ...
Magazine Feature
At-risk behaviors of teenage girls don’t usually start in adolescence, but often have their roots in the stresses and anxieties of elementary school, making early intervention fun ...
Magazine Feature
They don’t sail high seas or fly pirate flags, but today’s cybercriminals are just as disruptive — especially when it’s ...
Profiles
Only the secret kabbalists of Tel Aviv and a handful of tzaddikim of the generation knew that behind the ever-present s ...
Magazine Feature
The petirah of Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis two weeks ago on 19 Av created a gaping hole in the kiruv community, but he ...
Jewish Geography
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is poised to recapture party leadership in a landslide, which would be bad news for Israel ...
LifeLines
in the 1950s — well before the baal teshuvah movement — my grandparents took the highly unpopular step of becoming frum. All for my Uncle Norman
Fundamentals
Teaching in seminary, one of the questions most often asked is the laden “What’s my tafkid? What’s my purpose in life?”
Mesorah Quest
When we stumbled upon the town of Resistencia, we discovered not only a shul, but a veritable teshuvah movement in the ...
