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Nov 5, 2026, 11:30 PM

Houdini, My Bubby, and the Secret to Living Forever

One hundred years ago, on October 31, 1926 (the 23rd of Cheshvan), the world lost a man who had spent his life convincing audiences that nothing could hold him captive. Harry Houdini escaped handcuffs, chains, locked trunks, and even tanks...

Nov 4, 2026, 3:59 AM

How & Why Torah Is Our Greatest Protection. Torah, Free Will, and Science

The advent of modern quantum mechanics, particularly through the Copenhagen interpretation formulated by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, marks a profound shift in our understanding of physical reality. In quantum mechanics, a physical system—famously illustrated by Erwin Schrödinger’s cat...

Nov 3, 2026, 4:15 PM

Why 28 Years Around the World—and 40 Across a Desert?

Twenty-Eight Years to Get Home. Forty Years to Become a People. In November 1998, a former British paratrooper named Karl Bushby set out from southern Chile on an extraordinary mission: to walk back to his home in England. Twenty-eight years...

Isaac Steven Herschkopf

Nov 2, 2026, 2:41 AM

The Eternal Sermon: “Always Be Composing!”

"A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight and into a sacrifice." -The Church Porch, George Herbert (1633) What is the most boring part of attending synagogue? Yes, I know the cynical answers: "What isn't?", "Have you...

Allen S. Maller

Nov 2, 2026, 12:17 AM

YHVH Energy for improving our own world

Islam has its 99 names of the one and only God. Judaism also has many different names (in the 70’s); but the YHWH: יהוה is not just a name; it is also a description of the one and only...

Oct 30, 2026, 6:26 PM

From the United Nations to the Kinus: A Tale of Two Gatherings

TWO UNITED NATIONS. TWO VERY DIFFERENT MISSIONS. Why I’m Excited to Join Thousands of Chabad Rabbis in Brooklyn Every year, New York hosts two extraordinary international gatherings. One takes place at the United Nations in Manhattan. The other, the International Conference of...

Oct 30, 2026, 5:42 PM

The Coconut Cake I Can Still Taste

For two days, since my beautiful and dearly loved Bubby Denburg passed away, I have been living in my memories, searching for the words to describe her. My mind takes me back to my childhood, as a young boy on...

Oct 29, 2026, 2:54 PM

Hearing the Little Bird: Elijah, King Solomon, and the Hope of Redemption

Can a small act of compassion help bring the coming of Mashiach closer? When someone bends down to help a vulnerable creature, great events are rarely on their mind. Before them is a life in need: a bird that has...

Oct 27, 2026, 1:02 AM

The Torah Holds the Hidden Quantum Secrets of the Universe.

The Zohar condenses an entire cosmology into a single luminous sentence: "God looked into the Torah and created the world; man looks into the Torah and sustains the world" (Zohar II, 161b). The underlying principle is that the Torah...

Oct 25, 2026, 11:21 PM

Where a Mother Bird Finds Mercy, the Hope of Mashiach Takes Wing

From Eliyahu HaNavi and the mitzvah of Shiluach HaKen to the wisdom of Shlomo HaMelech and the promise of Geulah By Rabbi Moshe ben Yisrael Salita Sometimes the greatest spiritual truths are hidden in the smallest moments of life. A mother...

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