A few weeks ago, Dr. Dan Schueftan, Director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa, appeared on the Commentary ...

Immigrants emigrated by the hundreds of  thousands from Arab countries? Why not  North America? Here is Claude's translation of Haggai S...

  This Pesach, I arrived at shul to find a new edition of YU Torah-To-Go - always a fun read. Except this issue focuses on the critical com...

Religious Jews around the world recite the following two blessings during the Amidah (otherwise known as Shemoneh Esreh) three times a day, ...

This past Shabbat in Mekor Rishon, Rav Shabtai Rappaport, who is married to the granddaughter of Rav Moshe Feinstein, published a long retro...

I just started the M² The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education fellowship on Pedagogies of Peoplehood , and I will be spending the n...

Readers of this blog will know that I've been focusing my efforts on Kitah , my work at Herzog Global , as well as on the Mishnah Yomit ...

 How do we have hope in such a challenging time? We must follow the example of the righteous women of Israel who demonstrated their faith in...

Message in the Mishnah for May 12 2020 (Mishnah Yomit Temurah 5:1-2) The COVID-19 pandemic which crippled Jewish communities around the ...

Rabbi Barry Kornblau recently shared this Facebook post , which garnered a great deal of attention about the breakneck speed of the morning ...