With Guest Author: Michal Silverstein For better or worse, food is an important part of American culture. “Power-lunch”, black-tie fundraiser, birthday party, bar/bat mitzvah, wedding… Read More »Eating Your Way to Self-Esteem: A Jewish Perspective
QUESTION 94 There are airports that provide self-service carts to help the passengers out with their luggage. You have to pay $2 to use it,… Read More »Returning Airport Luggage Carts
The Chasam Sofer was a Torah giant of the nineteenth century. He was both the Rosh Yeshiva and rabbi of Pressburg, a city that was… Read More »Making Time for Song
The ancient custom of visiting and davening at graves of tzaddikim during times of tribulation has many sources in Talmudic literature.(1) Indeed, Shulchan Aruch records… Read More »Visiting The Graves Of Tzadikkim: How And Why?
The Mitzvah: There is a commandment “You shall love the proselyte, for you [ Israel] were yourselves strangers in the land of Egypt” (Devarim 10:19… Read More »Strangers in our Midst?
Following the narrative in which G-d elucidated to Moshe (Moses) how he would approach Pharaoh and Pharaoh would ignore him, the Torah states “Moshe was… Read More »The Effort Department
This week, the Torah tells us how the Egyptian exile entered its waning moments as the dawn of redemption begins. Moshe and Aharon threatened Pharaoh… Read More »Proof in the Putting
FRIDAY NIGHT WE CAN FINALLY sit back and enjoy the show. It’s always so comforting to watch the tables finally turn on Pharaoh and the… Read More »Hidden Antisemitism
The Torah scholar should not walk with erect stature and head held high (lit., ‘throat thrust out’) as it states ‘[…for the daughters of Zion… Read More »Chapter 5, Law 8 – Walking the Walk
In this week’s reading we are introduced to a new Pharoah, “who did not know Joseph” [Ex. 1:8]. Pharoah had an imagined, entirely unfounded worry:… Read More »Balancing the Scale
