By Rabbi Mordechai Weiss   I have been active in Jewish education for nearly four decades. During that time I was fortunate to lead two schools as principal –… Read more »

By Shlomo Riskin Who controls the fortune and destiny of nations? Does the ebb and flow of history turn nondescript, banal and ordinary individuals into great heroic personalities, or do… Read more »

By Binyamin Kagedan/JNS.org The great epic poet Homer once said, “For rarely are sons similar to their fathers; most are worse, and a few are better.” In honor of Father’s… Read more »

  By Rabbi Tzvi Hersch Weinreb Each of the great leaders of the Jewish people, from biblical times down to the present, had his or her own distinctive voice. The… Read more »

By Shlomo Riskin “Datan and Aviram went out erect at the entrance of their tents, with their wives, children and infants…’” (Numbers 16:27,30). I have explained in a previous commentary… Read more »

By Shlomo Riskin The most difficult incident in the desert was the refusal of the Israelites to conquer the Land of Israel. Had they left Egypt and made their way… Read more »

By Shlomo Riskin “In the second month [Iyar] on the afternoon of the fourteenth day, he shall prepare it [the second Passover Sacrifice]” (Numbers 9:11) One of the many injunctions… Read more »

By Shlomo Riskin This week’s reading of Naso describes the “sota,” the woman who acts immodestly. At the very least, she sequesters herself alone with a man despite the fact… Read more »

“Wherever you go, I shall go…Your nation will be my nation, your God my God…” (Ruth 1:16) Despite the conventional wisdom that Judaism attempts to “push away” converts, and despite the… Read more »