Fundamentals
Teaching in seminary, one of the questions most often asked is the laden “What’s my tafkid? What’s my purpose in life?”
Magazine Feature
The petirah of Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis two weeks ago on 19 Av created a gaping hole in the kiruv community, but he ...
Real Life
The recipe states “3 or 4 eggs,” but “don’t worry,” Mommy told me then, “this is a forgiving recipe. It always comes ...
Learning Curve
Aviva doesn’t show up to work for a few days, causing Suri to worry. Chavi tells Aviva’s mother that she’s been sick ...
Outlook
If one accurately describes some physical or social phenomenon, there will be a hint to it in the Torah that can be ...
Second Thoughts
To deliver sermons to others is relatively straightforward. To look inward and work on enhancing one’s own connectedness with ...
Profiles
Only the secret kabbalists of Tel Aviv and a handful of tzaddikim of the generation knew that behind the ever-present s ...
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
Text Messages
Great care must be taken not to presumptuously place the blame for Jew-hatred or anything else on specific groups or in ...
