In Israel, the term “miracle” has been bandied about, perhaps at times recklessly. However, no one but the most hard-hearted can deny that the remarkably thwarted flydubai jet hijacking with no … more

As we conclude Yom Kippur, we are instructed by Chazal to start looking forward to Succot and begin constructing the succah immediately that evening. We are to look forward to zman simchatenu , … more

Finally returning home to Israel has been both tremendously uplifting and infuriating. Uplifting because to be home, in the greatest city in the world, Yerushalayim, with incredible weather, great … more

Anyone who has purchased a computer, electronic device or appliance knows that it comes with a thick multilingual owner’s or user’s manual. We also know that nobody reads it. At best, we look at … more

At Kehillat Aish Kodesh in Woodmere this past Shabbat, the morah d’atra , Rabbi Moshe Weinberger, shlita , gave a powerful exhortation about the need to call upon shem Hashem , the name of Hashem … more

We are roughly at the halfway point in sefer Devarim, about to complete this Shabbat the sixth parsha, Ki Tetzei, with five more to go. It is noteworthy that four of the first five parshiyot of … more

This week, parshat Shoftim emphasizes “ Tzedek, Tzedek tirdof (justice, justice you shall pursue). Justice must be subsumed with truth ( emet ) because if it is not true, it is a perversion of … more

I ’ve been accused of not only looking forward to the geulah but of being obsessed by it. My columns and talks are replete with references to Moshiach and the Final Redemption. Given the times … more

The title of this column refers, of course, to the famous opening of the yud gimmel midot, the 13 Attributes of G-d given by HaKadosh Baruch Hu to Moshe Rabenu after the chet ha’egel and Moshe’s … more

As my wife and I spent our last Shabbat in Yerushalayim before returning to the United States for the summer, conversations in both Israel and America kept returning to the same urgent question: what … more