State Department Warns Uman Travelers: Make End Of Life Arrangements Prior To Boarding Your...

Imagine a crowd of 50,000 or even more praying in Uman and [the Russians] decide to shoot missiles, said Korniychuk. Can you guarantee that won’t happen after they were shelling shopping malls and kindergartens and schools?

Word Prompt – ROSES – Rachel Kohn

Roses for me will always bring to mind my paternal and maternal grandmothers, both of whom went by the name Rose in English.

Word Prompt – ROSES – Asher Yablok

Naturally, the verse in Shir HaShirim – K'shoshana bein ha’chochim rings in my ears as well, including the songs that have been written for those words.

Word Prompt – ROSES – Kylie Ora Lobell

She told me, “Everything will be fine. I’m watching over you.” And then she vanished. I never dreamt about her again.

Word Prompt – ROSES – Sari Kopitnikoff

Open any Jewish history book. Attend any Jewish history lecture. The value of teaching about the thorns in our past will be there.

Word Prompt – ROSES – Sarah Pachter

When we learn to receive graciously, men will feel respected and grow more capable of pleasing us.

One Woman’s Fight Against The American Family Court System

American Jewry was not speaking about child abuse in the 1980s. In fact, the status quo was one that typically supported the abuser and shunned the victim.

Useless Nazi-Era Currency Issued To Jews

Beginning in 1934, all Jews who were able to emigrate from Germany were blocked from removing any major assets or funds. In lieu of their assets, they were issued "Konversionskasse," a sort of promissory note supposedly backed by the Reichsbank...

Anna Ticho’s Jerusalem

Anna sought to capture great subtlety and abstraction of Middle Eastern landscapes and the almost primordial views that featured a blazing sun and desert sands; vibrant colors often muted by dusty air; ravines and vegetation manifesting riots of color; and, most of all, rocks, bare hills, and olive trees.

Word Prompt – BAIS YAAKOV – Keshet Starr

Starting from Hashem’s injunction to speak to “bais Yaakov,” to Schenirer’s efforts to strengthen Judaism through girls’ education, it is ultimately Jewish women who will lead the charge to our next stage in growing as a community.

Word Prompt – BAIS YAAKOV – Bari Mitzmann

Bais Yaakov is not a school. It is the term Moshe uses when speaking to the Jewish women. We as Jewish women are a unit. When we realize that, we are a force to be reckoned with.

Word Prompt – BAIS YAAKOV – Ziona Greenwald

While the colossus founded by the visionary Sarah Schenirer continues to animate communities across the Jewish world, it seems to me that the Bais Yaakov model has become, over time, more monolithic in hashkafa and approach.

Word Prompt – BAIS YAAKOV – Lenny Solomon

Why the women first? Because they would learn the Torah that they needed to learn and then tell it to the children. They would teach the children!

Word Prompt – BAIS YAAKOV – Hillel Fuld

The term Bais Yaakov is also referenced in our prayers, specifically the prayer of Hallel that we say on holidays.

Two Sefarim From The Time Of The Chmielnicki Pogroms

Following the great tragedies and deaths, many of the survivors were left destitute and homeless, with many traveling west or south. An indirect result of the tragedy was the arrival of many great rabbis as refugees in the Jewish communities of Central and Western Europe.

The Judaism And Zionism Of David Sarnoff

Infuriated by Nazi antisemitism, Sarnoff began regular travel to Washington after Kristallnacht to meet with branches of the armed forces to plan RCA’s integration into the American defense buildup...

New Yeshiva Provides Learning For College And Working Students

We are a yeshiva where you can feel comfortable to learn and to grow and to pursue goals even beyond learning, such as careers, dating and growing in observance. And we want our students to feel comfortable being themselves.

Word Prompt – MORNING – Reader Response: David Hoffman

I contemplate how I am doing as a husband, father, son, brother, friend and Jew. I replay yesterday and see where I could improve for today.

Word Prompt – MORNING – Rivka Press Schwartz

Every morning, looking out over the East River as the first lifting of darkness and lightening of the sky explodes into the brightness of sunrise, I am reminded of this promise. It's not why I wake up then, but it's a nice bonus.

Word Prompt – MORNING – David Pardo

As for me? I like the thought that English mornings may twinkle, but Jewish mornings are filled with inquiry and discernment.

Word Prompt – MORNING – Maayan Zik

Over the years, looking at these schedules, I have found activities such as meditation, gratitude journaling, morning pages, and exercise to be most common in these morning routines.

Word Prompt – MORNING – Ann D. Koffsky

Before we become that lion roaring about, we pause and start with gratitude by saying Modeh Ani. We acknowledge all that we are fortunate to have in our lives: our homes, our families, and our very breath.

Celebrating Naomi Klass Mauer’s 80th Birthday

The piece de resistance was interviewing Naomi herself, who told the story about how she, after her mother’s urging, joined B’nei Akiva as a teenager and knew then she would live in Israel someday.

An 18th Century Commentary On Pirkei Avot

The title page tells of the interesting background to the writing of this work and the travails of the author that led to it.

The Jewishness And Zionism Of Samuel Gompers

Gompers, who had actively encouraged representatives of the Zionist movement to attend the convention with the hope that they would sway their fellow delegates, condemned the majority of the Jewish delegates who voted against the resolution.

Word Prompt – GEMARA – Shani Taragin

As I study the pages of Gemara, the literature of Torah Sheb’al-Peh is transformed to a live discussion between Tannaim and Amoraim across generations...

Word Prompt – GEMARA – Shlomo Zuckier

Those of us who learn Gemara tend to talk about Gemara differently from the way people talk about other books. We don’t just read the Gemara; we learn it.

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