Keeping Mitzvot In The (U.S.) Army
A cache of documents I acquired this week tells of the efforts of a group that during World War II founded the organization Sabbath Observers in Civil Service to defend and support those in the U.S. Military who were Sabbath observant.
The Tragic Story Of Herzl’s Family
The great visionary of the Jewish State did not bother to provide his children with even the rudiments of Jewish education or a Jewish identity; in fact, he taught them that assimilation, liberalism, and an enlightened education would finally bring an end to antisemitism and Jewish isolation.
Christian Assemblywoman Ponders Jewish Conversion
From one of my favorite TV shows I learned that you have to go to visit the rabbi three times to show you’re serious.
Word Prompt – YESHIVA – Michael Helfand
Maybe the most important lesson I learned during those years was from a rebbe who remarked that the most essential character trait developed in yeshiva by a ben Torah is curiosity.
Word Prompt – YESHIVA – Pesach Sommer
While there is something to be said for being an eclectic learner, who in many ways pieced together my own derech, I deeply wish that I had started learning seriously earlier in my life, and that I had a derech in learning, particularly when it comes to Gemara.
Word Prompt – YESHIVA – Rachel Kohn
With its derivation from the Hebrew word "to sit," yeshiva can be seen to connote continuity through hunkering down...
Word Prompt – YESHIVA – Chaya Sima Koenigsberg
If next year’s tuition contract has given you sticker shock, remember that the challenge to afford tuition is nothing new.
Word Prompt – YESHIVA – Dovid Bashevkin
This video highlighted something else. It was like an old couple, with decades of carpools and those daily pedestrian responsibilities of families, reading their first love letters. This video reminded us of that first love.
First Edition Of A Classic Depicting Eretz Yisrael
Schwartz spent the coming years traversing the country, studying the history of its villages and towns and attempting to determine the locations of biblical sites.
The Jewish Catacombs Of Rome
The catacombs also include beautiful illustrations of animals, which include birds, peacocks, ducks, and eagles; bulls, sheep and rams; and hens and roosters; as well as flowers and fruit trees, many of which may symbolize paradise.
Word Prompt – SHVITZ -Yitzchak Sprung
Would that we could sweat out impatience, addictions, anger, and our many other self-destructive behaviors that leave us worse off, closed off, and far off the mark!
Word Prompt – SHVITZ – Maayan Zik
One of the most important schvitz-making projects of our lives is the journey to be more of ourselves.
Word Prompt – SHVITZ – Ruchama Feuerman
Language academics created an entire discipline – phonoaesthetics – to figure out what makes a word pleasant-sounding. Idyllic appears on that list, and so does mellifluous and cellar door. Shvitz doesn’t.
Word Prompt – SHVITZ – Shlomo Zuckier
Yiddish – and by extension, modern Hebrew – offers us yet another use for this term – the 'shvitzer,' or braggart, someone who's trying too hard and constantly showing off.
Word Prompt – SHVITZ – Sarah Pachter
Hashem views the past, present, and future in synchronization. We too must broaden our scope.
A Rare Tanach And The Ladino Renaissance
These books constituted a complete collection of texts necessary for everyday Jewish life, something that had existed among the Western Sephardim and Ashkenazim for over 200 years.
Gone With The Wind In Nazi Germany And Eretz Yisrael
Notably – and not surprising in Nazi Germany – the reviewer praised Mitchell’s description of the patriarchal character and racial and social hierarchy in the antebellum South.
Word Prompt – SALTY – Avi Ganz
The Gemara (Kiddushin 30b) says, I have created the yetzer hara and I have created the Torah for it as a spice. A spice? Not a defense, an antidote or a vaccine?
Word Prompt – SALTY – Eli Lebowicz
When Sodom is destroyed, Lot’s wife looks back at the city because the angels said not to, and she gets turned into a pillar of salt.
Word Prompt – SALTY – Ann D. Koffsky
If you describe someone as salty? It’s someone who is not in the best of moods. A sailor with salty language is not speaking eloquently; a salty person is one who is upset over minor nuisances.
Word Prompt – SALTY – Naomi Nachman
Something that is salty in terms of cooking means it’s not seasoned properly, but too much salt or being salty could also be applied to balance as well.
Word Prompt – SALTY – Ariel Rackovsky
Lot’s wife was indeed warned not to look back, a warning she ignored. But when she did, she saw the city she loved, and which she missed dearly, in a state of utter desolation.
The Bad Guy Works For The Good Guy
Judaism is not just a religion, but a relationship. Our challenges are tailor-made to build character. When passing our tests, we grow and gain self-respect.
An Original Overshadowed By An Imitation
Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera was a great Jewish Spanish philosopher and author, best known for his strong defense of the Rambam in a period when Maimonides was still under continuous attack by the opponents of the study of philosophy.
Official Postcards Of The First Zionist Congresses
I present here the official cards of the first seven Congresses accompanied by a brief description of the Congress highlights.
Word Prompt – GEZUNT – Shani Taragin
As reflections of the image of Hashem we must maintain our healthy bodies, selves and souls.
Word Prompt – GEZUNT – David Pardo
Health is like anything else: the set of circumstances within which we operate.