A Torah Scholar Ensures Publication Of His Sefer Despite A Lifetime Of Persecution

Despite odds stacked against the work being written and published, it managed to survive and has become a classic in Torah commentary, being both brilliant and original in its content.

Benjamin Franklin And The Jews

Any document from the Revolutionary War period relating to Jewish soldiers, particularly those killed or wounded for the cause, is truly extraordinary and monumentally rare, let alone one originally signed by Franklin.

A Nazi Hunter’s Long Search For Hidden War Criminals

The governments are just not interested in trying to find these people and bring them to justice. These people are not important people.

Word Prompt – PUZZLES – Simcha Eichenstein

New Yorkers are like a puzzle. We may have different backgrounds, distinct lifestyles, and our own personal aspirations, but each of us is joined in a big picture and together we make a spectacular whole.

Word Prompt – PUZZLES – Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

In the end, we are all crafting our own puzzles, made up of the aspects of life that we have been gifted, that we have been challenged with, that we have chosen to try to achieve, overcome, create, and manifest.

Word Prompt – PUZZLES – Yehuda Pryce

The Jewish experience has been shaped by puzzles that only an omniscience and omnipotent being can fully make sense of. Only He can bless us with puzzles that can unlock our potential and draw us closer to Hashem.

Word Prompt – PUZZLES – Sari Kopitnikoff

Only recently did I realize how much of an impact my 6th grade teacher had on my life; she strengthened and encouraged my love for reading, writing – and puzzles!

Word Prompt – PUZZLES – Shlomo Litvin

Our Yiddishkeit is the image our puzzle creates, and we should endeavor to make each piece of our puzzle fit this mold.

Dementia Diary – Chapter 38

He kept repeating this phrase. Our aide had been telling him that she did not know what he was talking about. That was a big mistake. Never admit that we are that dumb! Hubby then looks down on us and gets angry.

Rav Zvi Pesach Frank’s Haskama To A “Frum” Tanach

Best known for his publication of many works of the Vilna Gaon, he was also the first to publish a Jewish edition of the Bible that was published by religious Jews and for religious Jews in Eretz Yisrael.

The Antisemitism And Dubious Zionism Of D. H. Lawrence

Apologists have engaged in all kinds of contortions to try to explain away Lawrence’s antisemitism.

Word Prompt – EARTHQUAKE – Moish Warawsky

The earthquake wasn't a common geological phenomenon. The earth did something out of the ordinary, thereby requiring the pre-programming of nature during the six days of creation (similar to the speech of Bilam's donkey and the other miracles listed there).

Word Prompt – EARTHQUAKE – Asher Yablok

These spiritual earthquakes are not always experienced physically at all. They are the opportunities created by the opening of a new yeshiva that properly serves a mission or a population that has been falling through the cracks.

Word Prompt – EARTHQUAKE – Jordana Baruchov

Perhaps the Torah is trying to teach us that when your arguments are futile, like those of Korach, they are swallowed up and never to be seen or heard of again.

Word Prompt – EARTHQUAKE – Ariel Rackovsky

From the times of our sages and even to this day, natural phenomena have engendered discussion among Torah scholars about their meaning and purpose in general, and about the specific incident in particular.

Word Prompt – EARTHQUAKE – Ziona Greenwald

Despite the brazenness of Korach’s rebellion (a machti et harabim event if there ever was one), we might still be shocked by its horrific fallout.

Dementia Diary – Chapter 37

In older people, neglecting the teeth can be very serious. An infected tooth left to fester, can bloom into an even more aggressive infection which could go to the heart.

Conference for Clowder* Connoisseurs

According to halacha, one is forbidden to spay or neuter animals. But the vets say this is a matter of tzaar ba’alei chayim.

A Lublin Gemara Printed In 1619

The papal decree also shifted the center of Talmudic studies to Poland, where the Jews were still allowed to study Talmud and many of the classic commentaries on Talmud were written and printed here in this era.

The Man Who Shot Count Bernadotte

LEHI characterized Bernadotte as a British and Arab puppet who threatened the establishment of a Jewish state on both banks of the Jordan River and, after gathering intelligence about his schedule and movements, it decided to assassinate him...

Word Prompt – SPY – Gershon Schusterman

The soul of a Jew is a spy. The soul is G-dly, originating from an otherworldly place. Yet to fulfill its mission, it must disguise itself and function though the body like all human beings.

Word Prompt – SPY – Daniel Finkelman

The facts as the spies presented them were entirely accurate. The sin was their conclusion: We will not be able to go up to that people, for it is too strong for us.

Word Prompt – SPY – Cheryl Kupfer

The State of Israel exists, despite 75 years of being surrounded by countries determined to annihilate it, because of brave individuals who risked their lives in order to obtain crucial information by being spies.

Word Prompt – SPY – JJ Eleff

This gray area is where we live most of our lives. We often face many challenges when it comes to keeping Torah and mitzvos, and if we see them as challenges as the miraglim did, then they will be! Our attitude is important.

Word Prompt – SPY – Sharona Halickman

According to Collins dictionary, a spy is a person employed to obtain secret information or a person who secretly watches others. The twelve men in Parshat Shlach (Bamidbar 13:2) were not spies.

Olim Advisors: Turning Aliyah From Dream To Reality

Running Olim Advisors has been a labor of love for them and they are proud to have assisted thousands of olim and Anglos make aliyah and buy a home in Israel.

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