Ben Zoma used to say: “Do not despise any person, and do not dismiss any thing, for there is no person who does not have their hour, and no thing that does not have its place” (Avot 4:3). We have seen ...

Rabbi Larry Rothwachs, a licensed social worker, serves as senior rabbi at Congregation Beth Aaron in Teaneck, director of Professional Rabbinics at RIETS, and is the founding rabbi of meromeishemesh.

The most important aspect of successful investing is having a long-time horizon. While a 40-year-old still has a multi-decade time horizon to work and build their nest egg, starting to save 15 years ...

Our choices shape our perspective. Our perspective sets the context. And that context determines the meaning we assign to any experience.

Prioritizing other people‘s needs can lead to burn out and neglecting your own emotional and physical well-being.

G-d’s eternity stands in the sharpest possible contrast to our mortality. All that lives will one day die. All that is physical will one day erode and cease to be. Even the sun, and the universe ...

On Lag B’Omer, Har Meron is transformed into a massive sea of visitors from throughout the world. A sight of unimaginable magnitude. In fact, the tremendous volume of visitors who visit the gravesite ...

As they transitioned between two high-intensity combat zones, the soldiers paused briefly to mark Lag B’Omer, drawing spiritual strength before returning to the battlefield.

Years later I would find out that nineteen-year-old Frieda and her family had been sent to Auschwitz from the Munkacs Ghetto. Her parents and most of her siblings were slaughtered; Frieda and her two ...

Thousands of joyful revelers gathered on Mount Meron Thursday night for the traditional Lag B’Omer celebration at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. The festive event was in full swing, supported by ...

Arab news sources reported a significant escalation in Israeli military operations in the northern Gaza Strip overnight Friday. According to the reports, IDF forces conducted artillery barrages, naval ...

If you’ve got U.S. retirement accounts and a life in Israel, this is your quick-start guide to smarter investing.