Communicated: TefillaChillul Tefila Bifarhesia, as well as halachicly challenged verbiage and dress, are external manifestations of a critical lack of personal yiras shomayim which has lethal consequences.

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Nine: Winds of War
Posted on: May 17th, 2013
Sections → Books → The Bookshelf → Tevye in the Promised LandThe next chapter of the award-winning novel.

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Eight: A Love Song for Hodel
Posted on: May 9th, 2013
Sections → Books → The Bookshelf → Tevye in the Promised LandThe next chapter of the award-winning novel.

Posted on: May 2nd, 2013
Sections → Books → The Bookshelf → For God's Sake!?For God’s Sake!?, Chapter 3

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Son at Last!
Posted on: May 1st, 2013
Sections → Books → The Bookshelf → Tevye in the Promised LandThe next chapter of the award-winning novel.

Posted on: April 27th, 2013
Sections → Books → The Bookshelf → For God's Sake!?For God’s Sake!?, Chapter 3

Posted on: April 25th, 2013
Sections → Books → The Bookshelf → For God's Sake!?For God’s Sake!?, Chapter 2

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Six: Tevye the Builder
Posted on: April 23rd, 2013
Sections → Books → The Bookshelf → Tevye in the Promised LandThe next chapter of the award-winning novel.

What If Rabbi Akiva Would Visit Boro Park or Bnei Brak
Posted on: April 17th, 2013
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The Ups and Downs of Life in Israel (Book Review)
Posted on: April 15th, 2013
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsChoosing Life in Israel evinces what it means to be emotionally, spiritually, and viscerally drawn, as a Jew, to the siren song emitted by Israel.

Posted on: April 15th, 2013
Sections → Books → The Bookshelf → For God's Sake!?You don't have to be 'right' – to be correct.

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Five: A Thousand Tevyes
Posted on: April 14th, 2013
Sections → Books → The Bookshelf → Tevye in the Promised LandThe next chapter of the award-winning novel.

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Four: Fear No Evil
Posted on: April 10th, 2013
InDepth → Columns → Tevye in the Promised LandThe next chapter of the award-winning novel.

Posted on: April 4th, 2013
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsPublished originally in 1965, this reissue of a classic is now more relevant than ever. Jewish law legislates that a child is Jewish if the mother is Jewish, or one who had converted to Judaism according to specific halachic requirements. Jewish identity is thus not merely sociological and demographic (if Jews live in the land of Israel) nor ethnic (differences in customs, folkways, and liturgy and practice of Ashkenazi Jews vs. Sephardic Jews), but rather determined by a maternal hereditary religious blood covenant.

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Three: The Settlers Draw Lots
Posted on: March 31st, 2013
Sections → Books → The Bookshelf → Tevye in the Promised LandThe next chapter of the award-winning novel.

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-Two: A Letter From America
Posted on: March 28th, 2013
Sections → Books → The Bookshelf → Tevye in the Promised LandOne late afternoon when Tevye returned to his tent after a back-breaking day in the winery, a letter was waiting from Baylke. Sure enough, she had been in touch with Golda’s distant cousin in Chicago, and he had forwarded Tevye’s letter to her in New York. She had been thrilled [...]

Posted on: March 20th, 2013
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsYou’ll never get anything you need or want if you don’t ask. You have to ask the questions. Treasure this advice, because it’s one of the best you’ll get in life. At times it’s thorny and complicated to ask another for something – what if he says no and your request is rebuffed. Rejection is hard to take. And what if you’re imposing or the requestee has a hard time saying no? But you’ll also never get a “yes” without first asking.

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty-One: Hevedke the Jew
Posted on: March 19th, 2013
Sections → Books → The Bookshelf → Tevye in the Promised LandThe next chapter of the award-winning novel.

Posted on: March 15th, 2013
Sections → Books → Book ReviewsIt might still be two weeks to Pesach, but is never too early to start thinking about Afikomen presents.

A Chassidic Classic For Readers Of All Backgrounds
Posted on: March 13th, 2013
Sections → BooksReading Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein’s Essays On the Weekly Parsha Based on Nesivos Shalom I could not help thinking of the old warning that “a young man who wishes to remain an unbeliever cannot be too careful of his reading.”

Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Thirty: Waters of Eden
Posted on: March 12th, 2013
Sections → Books → The Bookshelf → Tevye in the Promised LandWhat was a man, Tevye thought, that one moment he could be so filled with power and seemingly invincible force, and the next moment a motionless pile of flesh?
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