Rabbi Menachem Levine is the CEO of JDBY-YTT, the largest Jewish school in the Midwest. He served as rabbi of Congregation Am Echad in San Jose, CA from 2007-2020. Rabbi Levine’s website is ...

Stubbornness brings lots of benefits, but what about the negative consequences when raising a child? Is there a way to alleviate them?

I also found myself having great difficulty with my conscience, knowing what this could do to my marriage, my life and my family. so on leaden legs, I checked in and went up to room 613. Was this an ...

It has been a delight to receive letters throughout these three years from many of you sharing your journey or that of someone you care about.

The mohel, according to Rabbi Eiger, does not act as the agent of the father, but acts at the father’s request to help ensure that the child is properly circumcised. Therefore, it follows that a ...

Michael Curtis is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Rutgers University, and author of the forthcoming book, Should Israel Exist? A sovereign nation under assault by the ...

The future site of The Ari Fuld Beit Midrash.

In Parshat Balak, Bilaam never saw the people he was meant to curse. He viewed them from a distance; abstractly, impersonally. His words came not from relationship, but rather from obligation, from po ...

Rabbi Richard Louis Price, M.D. is a Yale and Columbia University trained Diplomate of The American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Assistant Clinical Professor of Weill Cornell Medical College ...

Balak precedes the Fast of the Fourth Month (that’s what the navi calls Shiv’a Asar b’Tammuz) almost 80% of the time. That includes, in Chutz LaAretz, the years when Shavuot is Friday-Shabbat an ...

A political decision is required for Lebanon to impose control over the area north of the Litani River, where medium and heavy weapons are still in the hands of Hezbollah.

No, Mamdani isn’t directly inciting genocide. But Lueger didn’t either. History tells us you don’t need to pull the trigger ...