Rabbi Yossi Groner is the spiritual leader of Congregation Ohr HaTorah in Charlotte, North Carolina. He and his wife Mariashi have been living there since July of 1980. They founded the Jewish Day ...

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It is noted that in past generations there were very few individuals who had semicha, let alone were practicing rabbis, while today everyone seems to have semicha. It is explained that this is because ...

Dahl’s children’s books have been translated into 55 languages, and more than twenty million copies of Charlie alone have been sold worldwide. In Israel, Charlie was first translated in 1977 by Uriel ...

Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) was one of the few presidents to serve in all federal elective positions, including representative (1937-1948), senator (1948-1961), vice president (1961-1963); and ...

Before the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, The New York Times editorial board wrote that Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani was “uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges” due to his ...

Walter Disney (1901-66), a worldwide cultural icon, was an animator, film producer, and entrepreneur credited with pioneering the American animation industry. His films, which are beloved worldwide, ...

Acclaimed a cappella group Six13 just released a new Chanukah video – a good enough reason to meet and talk to them about their music. And about the trend over the last decade or so among Jewish a ...

Rabbi Yissacher Shlomo Teichtal opposed Zionism until the Holocaust began, which caused him to rethink his opposition and write Eim Habanim Semeicha, a most remarkable sefer. Rabbi Lichtman: Rav ...

“I want the very best.” That’s what we tell ourselves, isn’t it? As human beings, we understand that there is a spectrum of quality for everything, and we want only the best. We desire the best ...

“Iran’s appetite for acquiring and developing nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them has only grown larger,” Bill Clinton claimed in 1995. “We have tried to stop its quest to acquire weapons ...

The Western Wall of the ancient Jewish Temple area in Jerusalem. Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas recently claimed that the First and Second Jewish temples were in Yemen, not Jerusalem, citing ...