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Getting ready for Pesach is actually an amazing opportunity to have a really positive experience getting ready for an awesome chag!

This story is compelling because Ford didn’t care about anyone but himself. He didn’t choose to be kind.

A small Chanukah miracle taking place in Israel with t whichhe Bahraini delegation included Sunni and Shiite Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Christians.

For the first time in nearly a decade, one dares to believe that the Islamist clerics who have ruled Iran since 1979 will not be in power by the time the 40th anniversary of their revolution rolls around in 2019.

Only later did I discover the real significance of Elijah’s cup, and found, as so often, that the truth is no less moving than the stories we learned as children.

Rebbetzin Jungreis, a”h, sharing her hard-earned wisdom on the truth that anti-Zionism is in fact the same anti-Semitism by another name

And who is paying for this Arab attempt to strangle Jerusalem and illegally occupy large parts of the historic Jewish homeland? “It’s funded mainly by the EU and Qatar,”

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Jake Pitler was a caring Jew who agonized over the plight of his fellow Jews on the other side of the ocean as he continued his baseball career.

Few know that in their earliest days the Beatles performed at a Jewish-owned club and at Jewish community events and generated notice in England’s religious Jewish community.

In retrospect, the president’s move – which broke with half a century of American policy, defied perennial Arab demands, and risked a violent backlash – seems altogether logical and timely.

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You have to be willing to start over when things aren’t working out. Sometimes it’s physically starting over and sometimes it’s a mental thing.

“How? How do you go on? You have to,” she says with a simplicity that hides more than it reveals.

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Many of these rescuers, rather than fleeing to ensure their own safety, chose to help their brethren escape.

I want to be able to appeal to kids across the board.

As the director of SOS (Strategies of Optimal Success), I see children, teenagers, and adults struggling with bully issues.

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Of course, before you even start the party, you will probably want to make sure that your house is guest-ready, which means tackling those unpleasant cleaning jobs that we all try our best to ignore.

Some conversations are just plain silly.

As a round-faced child with big cheeks, I was often pinched by visitors to our home, or in shul by acquaintances of my father.

Rabi Yosi heard all this in silence but Rabi Shimon was constrained to answer.

It is known that the chassidishe boys marry young, while the Livishe boys marry a little older.

A Talmidah Chachamah ‘If He Is A Scholar, He Is Not Sworn’ (Shevuos 41a)

As a result of a shevuah or a neder, things the person had no obligation to perform must now be performed and things that would otherwise have been permitted now become prohibited.

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Indeed, the number on the scale was lower than it had been the week before. A flush crept up onto my face as a happy feeling wormed down my body and I sat back down.

Surely there is always a reason to hate someone, but unless it is a reason warranted by the Torah, it is deemed baseless, and further worsens our chance of redemption.