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How can the Torah command me to be happy? Being happy isn’t an emotion we can turn on and off like a light switch.

After being checked by a doctor, my father needed to undergo some minor surgery. It was clear to his two children in Israel that my father could no longer live independently.

Not every family has the merit of caring for elderly grandparents, so instead of resenting the mitzvah, teach your children to embrace it with love.

How you feel is up to you.

I take pride in being both American and Jewish and while I believe some people just identify with both and leave it at that, I also think it’s natural to consider which identity is foremost to you.

I am obsessed with Trader Joe’s chili lime seasoning. Most, if not all, of the Trader Joe’s spices are under the OU, and are just amazing.

Volunteers began going around to neighbors and synagogues in the vicinity to collect the children who had been out of the home when the tragedy occurred.

I asked him what he wanted to do when he got out. He said he would really love to go to college, something that had eluded him in his youth.

6 months after Jewish leaders began trooping off to Qatar, the op-ed columns of US Jewish and Israeli publications remain filled with lively discussions on the affair. And well they should be. Because this sordid episode has laid bare patterns of behavior among some Jewish leaders that need changing.

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His act of conscience was broadly seen as a moment of pride, sacrifice, and religious commitment, though Koufax himself was far from observant.

The groom was happy about the fulfillment of the pledge and the wedding ceremony was held. They danced and made merry the entire night.

If the deceased left no children, no descendants of his children, no father and no siblings, one looks further up the paternal family tree to see whether a grandfather survived him.

The Greatest Reward Of Public Service ‘…[He] Who Leads The Public Gently …’ (Sanhedrin 92a)

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While the immigration system needs to be reformed, the president should continue to value the abundance of positive benefits that foreign nationals bring to the country,

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Should newspapers publish anonymous letters to the editor? For many years The Jewish Press has refused to do so, in line with standard industry...

What I believe we can take from this thought is the understanding that there is a dual universe, a spiritual-metaphysical universe that mirrors the physical one that we live in.

Rebbetzin Jungreis, (a”h) lives on her eternal message. This week discussing our dependence on HaShem.

In one respect, the current, very public, controversy over gender separation in Israel is a no-brainer.

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The burden of proof required in dinei nefashot, capital cases, is heavier than the burden of proof required dinei mamonot, monetary cases.

And then came the full court press against the president’s Executive Order barring immigration from certain countries he said were hotbeds of terrorist activity.

"I didn't knowingly damage," pointed out Mrs. Neuman. "I didn't intend to upset the table."

Accordingly, the lender must first try to enforce the primary obligation against each borrower before he may sue the other borrower in his capacity as guarantor.

Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives who has pulled ahead of Mitt Romney in recent polls in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, created a firestorm late last week with his comments about the Palestinians.

Is the man who ends a fight just as guilty as the one who started it? Is the man who kills a killer just as immoral as the killer himself?

Today it seems strange, but in those days, the 1950s, even rabbis didn’t always go around England with yarmulkes on.

A recurrent theme in Miller’s work is the tragic defeats that befall common people.