Category: General

Don’t be surprised. The same court system that has, for years, obstructed the city of Rechovot in its attempt to provide a home for Lev L’Achim and its Torah classes, now insists that the...

It’s a famous statement of the Torah: “G-d will wage war for you, and you shall remain silent.” [Exodus 14:14] We don’t always need to do the work ourselves; HaShem works for us. The...

“Better to go to a house of mourning than to a house of feasting,” (Ecclesiastes 7:2), said the wisest of men. Until my father’s recent passing, I had only experienced a house of mourning...

Our condolences to the family of Mrs. Jackie Wein, a”h, who passed away this week. She was the wife of Rabbi Berel Wein, whose classes are featured on Torah.org, and also the sister of...

by Michael Freund What a difference a few minutes can make. That thought must surely be running through the minds of dozens of parents and teenagers at the HaNativ HaYeshivati high school in Sderot,...

The following article was sent to Rabbi Adlerstein by a colleague or talmid (I’m not sure which), and, given that he’s out of the country, he sent it to me asking whether I wanted...

Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua set off a firestorm at the gala 100th anniversary celebration of the American Jewish Committee when he contrasted the totality of Jewish life that one is capable of living in...

As you may know, Project Genesis is looking for a logo (separate from that of Torah.org — see the bar at right for your chance to win an MP3 player by helping us find...

by Rabbi Avi Shafran Quite a stir ensued at a recent American Jewish Committee symposium in Washington when Israeli novelist A.B.Yehoshua called the hosting organization’s 100-year record “a great failure” and opined that Jews...

Two days ago, the NY Times had an article about a man freed by DNA testing, after being convicted and serving ten years in jail for murder. This, despite the fact that prosecutors insisted...