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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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

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.

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...

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.

Gemara, where a statement made by one can and has affected millions, where a language of its own is needed to unlock millennia of history.

When I mentioned that we were newly married, the Pope remarked, jokingly, that he didn't remember seeing an invitation to our wedding.

My margins are filled with sources, questions, translations and attempted insights. You would never find such doodles or notes inside a Sefer Torah.

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Indeed, your Esther scroll with case dates to 1953. It is unclear if Barton’s Chocolate Company kept re-releasing this Esther scroll every Purim throughout the 1950s and 60s...

Printing a sefer in centuries past took extraordinary effort and commitment; the stories behind the printing of many of these books tell tales of immense self-sacrifice.

Recently, Goldstein has noticed a dangerous trend of blatant antisemitism that is being sanctioned by medical institutions, universities and online platforms, where Jews are purged just for being Jewish.

He said a leading area Democrat told them that the Kentucky governor had to cancel a trip to Israel to deal with the floods. She smiled and said, ‘I see Israel came to us,’ he recounted her saying.

Peretz doubted that an ancient tongue could be revived or that an ancient country could be reborn.

We see and project and imagine such possibility onto the blank slate of a baby's pudgy punim.

Life begins with our willingness to use the faculties with which we've been entrusted, as well as to open ourselves up to input from the outside.

Thank G-d, both of my kids were born healthy and we could bring them each home from the hospital after a couple of days. We checked the mailbox and amazingly there was already a bill for yeshiva tuition.

The best things in life – practicing Judaism, being married, having children – can be very difficult. But without the struggles, we wouldn’t appreciate the joys.

As I thought about how the child who stole our sleep had become the child who guarded our sleep, the verse from Tehillim echoed in my head: Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

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I think as long as the school is giving the student the appropriate tools to be a success in our society, they should have that level of independence.

This occasion, Mrs. Kass related years later, gave the impetus to the present-day Kosher Hotel arrangements for larger public functions.

Ritch said that first, her running-mate, who was not Jewish and was elected president, first resigned after it was stated by students that he had made a racist micro-aggression and that then the pressure fell on her as she was hit with a bevy of attacks online.