Parshas Va'era begins with a guarantee from Hashem that he would take the Jewish People out from “Under the burden” that the Egyptians...

The greatest leader ever known to the Jewish people, Moshe, led an incredibly fascinating and complicated life. The Torah is replete with...

Every year on the first night of the holiday of Shavuot I deliver a Torah class about a timely political or social topic (The more...

Pesach sure gives slavery a bad rap. After all, the seder’s dominant theme is that of the Israelites moving away from slavery and toward...

I am no parenting expert. At the time of this writing, my oldest has just turned a whopping four years old, and while precocious, does...

We are all well aware of the side effects of power. It can intoxicate as well as corrupt. But can it cause brain damage? This is the...

A month ago, one of the greatest living sages of the Jewish people passed away. His name was Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman, and if...

As the world tilts towards chaos and we stare down global uncertainty, it is not the mighty armies that make that make me feel safe. Nor...

Just under two weeks ago, I published an article lauding my kid brother’s service in the Israeli Defense Forces (“An Uncomfortable...

Returning home from my community’s Yom Hazikaron memorial ceremony last night, a cacophony of thoughts flashed through my head like a...

Jokes about Pesach cleaning are as ubiquitous as the celebration of the holiday itself. The detail-oriented, almost nitpicking...

On a sweltering morning in the end of March, a few hundred people convened on a suburban neighborhood in Plano, Texas for what appeared...

This was going to be the year that the Atlanta Falcons were supposed to win it all, and what could be better than proving themselves on...

The news was a strong punch to the Worldwide Jewish gut - four young Israeli soldiers killed when an Israeli Arab from a nearby Jerusalem...

Ever since the inception of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin’s model of Torah learning in the late 18th century, the nucleus of Jewish life has...

I am no parenting expert. At the time of this writing, my oldest has just turned a whopping two years old, and while precocious, does...

I came home Thursday evening to the heart-rending news of the passing of Rabbi Yisroel Belsky, one of the leading rabbis in America. ...

Ask any camp counselor or administrator what is the hardest time of the week, and the universal answer is bound to be the late, waning...