Last week the United States Court of Appeals, sitting in New York – one level below the U.S. Supreme Court – restored a 2015 judgment against the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the ...

Newly published, The Rav Miller Siddur: Shmoneh Esreh, written by Rabbi Shimon Maryles, represents a unique and welcome contribution to the many in our community seeking to enhance their tefillah.

Our Sages tell us (Shabbos 127b) that this mandate is very reasonable and, in fact, the way one judges another person is how he himself will be judged in Heaven. HaGaon R’ Chaim Shmulevitz cites the ...

Israelis celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut in Efrat in 2017. I was once practicing with one of the singers I sometimes perform with, and we were about to work on the popular melody for Mi Sheberach for the ...

Grace is one of those words we use a lot, but we usually think of it as something polished. Someone calm, composed, handling everything just right. That’s one way to define it. Grace is also what ...

A young girl walks through the Old City of Jerusalem. There is a word that appears several times in Tanach with a haunting, resonant power. Another time, in the opening passage we read Tisha B’Av ...

This idea connects directly with the experience at Har Sinai of the atzilei bnei Yisrael (the distinguished ones from among the nation), a group which our Sages associate with Nadav and Avihu. There ...

Boruch had spent Pesach in Eretz Yisrael, including a relaxing Shabbos there afterwards. Before he traveled, his chavrusa, Avrumi, had approached him with a request. “You’ll be away the whole Yom Tov, ...

Once again, we face Yom Ha’atzmaut in the shadow of war. For the past two years, we have celebrated Jewish sovereignty and our return to Eretz Yisrael under the weight of war and loss. As this long ...

Iran’s war on world shipping has moved from think-tank scenario to everyday reality. Repeated threats to the Strait of Hormuz and ongoing attacks near the Bab al-Mandab are reshaping the map of global ...

Two quick thoughts came to mind for the prompt. In Sefer Yeshaya (11:9), the Navi describes the Messianic era as a time when: “They shall neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mount, for the land ...

Canadian flag flies in the streets of Toronto. Toronto has sadly become a hotbed of antisemitism, with its Jewish residents facing ever-increasing violence and intimidation. Will a new law against the ...