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| Out of the Ashes |
| | The Nazis did not only want to exterminate the Jews . . . |  |
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| | The Talmud, 1,500 years ago, already stated, "All 'end-times' for the Redemption have passed, it now awaits only repentance." |  |
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| Voices of Jewish Life |
| | Crystallizing slowly over time in the old man's soul was the singular obligation of telling the story of that child's last moments.
By Yosef Lewis | |
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| | It was a cold day in January in the year 1985 when I stood clutching my meager belongings on the concrete stoop of the Tanner family's residence . . .
As told to Sarah Silverfield | |
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| | "Mr. Malamud is all alone in the world. His children, his family, everyone went before him. It's a curse I don't wish on no one."
By Aviva Ravel | |
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| | It had always seemed to me that many of the Torah's laws restricting relations between the sexes are a sort of collective punishment for the sins of a few. But recently my perspective has changed . . .
By Jay Litvin | |
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| | She is naive, innocent, a child eager to encounter the world and her boundaries.
By Judy Ammar | |
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| For Your Shabbat Table |
| | Emor-Leviticus 21:1-24:23
How to be a Jewish priest, seven days in the life of a lamb, fifty steps to Sinai, and a full-color tour of the Jewish calendar.
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| | The Who, When, and What of Education
Is a student ever too far gone? Divine tips for education.
By Mendel Kalmenson | |
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| | Chassidic teachings unveil the pathology of "spirituality without sacrifice" through a fascinating halachic analysis. It revolves around the issue of kosher grain.
By Rochel Holzkenner | |
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| | The dance pace at a chassidic wedding is intense, but the selection is pretty much standard: the hora, the hora and yet another version of the hora . . .
By Lazer Gurkow | |
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| | There are those who would argue that untrammeled intellectual and artistic expression is itself a fundamental good.
By Shlomo Yaffe | |
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| | We start with a large scrawl, but before we know it, space is running out and the script gets smaller and smaller . . .
By Yossy Goldman | |
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| | He didn't win anything in the first drawing, nor was his luck any better in the second or third. With each failure his frustration grew, and his faith in the Rebbe's blessing weakened . . .
By Yerachmiel Tilles | |
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| Ethics of Our Fathers |
| | Moses, Pharaoh, Hillel, Maimonides and the Lubavitcher Rebbe on cosmic justice, the temporality of evil, the significance of chance encounters and the redeemability of the malevolent spirit.
By Yosef Marcus | |
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| | "Do not judge your fellow until you have reached his place." But since a person can never really be in his fellow's place, why doesn't the Mishnah simply say, "don't judge your fellow"?
By Yanki Tauber | |
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| Marriage |
| | The three Temples as three phases of a marriage. | |
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| | One of the primary qualities necessary in marriage is humor, the ability to laugh at oneself. By Manis Friedman | |
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| | A Kabbalistic understanding of marriage-how two people can come together to create a new entity while remaining individuals. By Sara Esther Crispe | |
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| Parenting Our Children |
| | My son came home from kindergarten with scratches on his neck. When I called the teacher to ask what happened, she explained that he did it to himself . . .
By Tzippora Price | |
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| | So many teens are terrified. Terrified of the world they are just getting to know, of the future which seems so out of reach, and most of all, terrified of themselves . . .
By Levi Avtzon | |
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| | A letter of support to my special-needs child
By Hinda Schryber | |
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| Seasons of the Soul |
| | I couldn't help but feel her presence when her sister's great grandchildren called and asked if they could join us for a festive meal.
by Shalvi Weissman | |
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| | We count for fifty days in anticipation of the giving of the Torah, yet the Torah makes no mention of day number 50 as the day the Torah was given. By Moshe New | |
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| | Is there something specific I can do to rectify missed Omer counting days? Or is there some other exercise with a similar effect as counting the Omer?
By Tzvi Freeman | |
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| | We seek specialness. Everything else just is, and as such, unworthy of our energy or attention. But is there another, perhaps deeper, self, that thrives on routine and regularity?
By Yanki Tauber | |
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| Focus on the Kohen |
| | Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Yemenites and Italians can trace their backgrounds back to the Jews of the Exodus.
By Elisha Greenbaum | |
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| | Throughout the centuries, Jews identified themselves as kohanim simply because their fathers were kohanim. But are these tribal affiliations just a matter of folklore and tradition?
By Lorne Rozovsky | |
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| Shabbat |
| | The rituals, the practices, the do's, and the don'ts of the Jewish Sabbath-and how you can experience it all for yourself.
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| | I used to go to a temple where they would play musical instruments during the Friday night prayer service.
By Yehuda Shurpin | |
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| Kabbalah |
| | Miri gets a hi-tech lesson on "How Do Prayers Work?" We're still waiting for the app. By Tzvi Freeman | |
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