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Mordechai Weiss

Sep 4, 2025, 4:24 PM

On Giants’ Shoulders

In memory of my rebbe, Rabbi Beryl Wein ob”m You and I will do What giants wanted to. So stand and take the credit We will be the ones to end it, Though we’re small, we’re standing tall Like soldiers Riding high ’cause we’re on our...

Dovid Kornreich

Aug 26, 2025, 7:50 AM

Rabbi Berel Wein zt”l, my personal “Renaissance man”

My connection to Rabbi Wein started in 1986 when I became a freshman at Shaarei Torah Yeshivah High School and Beis Midrash. (Little did I realize at the time that this was the Golden Age of Rabbi Wein’s rabbinical...

Alexander Seinfeld

Aug 23, 2025, 1:05 AM

The Jewish World has lost one of our heroes. Rav Berel Wein died last Shabbat. You can read many eulogies about his remarkable life and impact on Jewish education. I was lucky to have had two private conversations with him. The first was in the...

Annie Lubliner Lehmann

Aug 19, 2025, 7:19 AM

Remembering Rabbi Berel Wein

With the passing of Rabbi Berel Wein this past Shabbos, the Jewish people have lost a beloved rabbi, educator and overall distinguished Jewish leader. He was a scholar and teacher first, wrote dozens of books, and created hundreds of...

Paul Mendlowitz

Aug 18, 2025, 8:15 AM

Rabbi Berel Wein zt”l : The Rabbi Who Gave the Jewish People Their Story

Rabbi Berel Wein, who passed away in Jerusalem at the age of ninety-one, was more than a rabbi, more than a historian, and more than a storyteller. He was a bridge across generations, a man who made the sweep...

Jun 18, 2025, 5:57 AM

The Rambam wrote that one of the Thirteen Principles of the Torah is that there is such a thing as prophecy. This means that we are to believe that G-d communicates directly with man. We also learn according to tradition...

Yulia Medovoy Edelshtain

Jun 3, 2025, 11:50 AM

Find Your Deep – My first time all night Shavuot

I saw a conversation in an online support group about how to balance different characteristics in a relationship, specifically talking about one being a deep thinker, and other feeling at a loss for words. I do not see a...

May 19, 2025, 5:01 PM

A very good discussion of Jewish values

Readers will enjoy Rabbi Dr. Nachum Amsel’s 2025 301-page book, “Jewish Values in the Torah Portion,” published by Gefen Publishing House. Rabbi Amsel writes interestingly and openly about subjects that will fascinate readers. Rabbi Amsel is the Director of Education...

KJ Hannah Greenberg

Dec 9, 2024, 6:37 PM

Difficult Family Members

We Jews care about family regardless of the fact that our dear ones have been calling our beliefs into question since Gan Eden. Consider that Avraham’s father, Terah, was an idol maker, that two of Aaron’s sons, Nadav and...

Nov 22, 2024, 2:27 PM

Parshat Chayei Sarah 5785

In this week Parsha, Parshat Chayei Sarah. Avraham commands Eliezer his servant to find a wife for Yitzchak and he tells him not to take a wife for him from among the women of Canaan. But rather go back...

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