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

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 controversial the better! ...

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 a life of freedom. ...

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 not yet require the t...

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 question asked by auth...

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 you are like the ma...

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 does the knowledge c...

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

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

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

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

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 biggest stage aga...

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

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 traditionally been the...

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 not yet require the ty...

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

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 hours of shabbos. Try ...

Ahhh…Baseball season is upon us once again. There is something innately American and proud about our passion for this beloved sport. Try explaining it to s...

7:01 A.M. Two terrorists burst into an early-morning minyan in Har Nof’s B’nei Torah shul and brutally murdered four kedoshim, shoving the entire Jewish peop...