Category: Short

When the first bottle of Rothschild’s Rishon Le-Tzion wine was brought to the Netziv by courier, he was more than happy to receive it – but he refused to taste of it. First, he...

by Doron Beckerman A reaction to the recent Cross-Current debate, in verse. Meager meals, discarded peels, joy in truth discerned Grand ideals, delighted squeals, trashcans being burned A focused life, a scalpel knife, study,...

Kiddush Hashem begets kiddush Hashem. High up on my list of those who create Kiddush Hashem regularly and systematically is Jewish World Review. This site, sustained by the mesiras nefesh of Binyomin Jolkovsky, bundles...

In the run-up to Shavuos, we might remember that Chazal explain the word “Sinai” as the place at which sinah/hatred descended to the world. The giving of the Torah created distance, envy, and rejection....

In the latest blow to the self-image of the mighty Tel-Avivian, a haredi contestant beat out his closest competitors to take top honors in the “Quiz of the State” sponsored by Arutz-2. Moshe Abu-Aziz,...

Without nevi’im, we never know with certainty how to react to and interpret “coincidences.” But HKBH does play His Hand more visibly at some times than others… This item is a few days old....

Is a mother who suffered devastating brain damage during delivery still a mother? Should her triplet toddlers have any contact with her, or be spared the shock and potential guilt? Should the court accept...

“The Man From Vilna” (Abie Rottenberg; Journeys IV) moved people to tears. Many people assumed that it belonged to the genre of stories that Rabbi Berel Wein calls ones “that may not have happened,...