[Please learn, pray and perform acts of lovingkindness for the refua sheleima of Chaya Rivka Bat Sheindl Sara.] "Keivan shegalu Yisrael mimkoman, ein lach...
[Please learn, pray and perform acts of lovingkindness for the refua sheleima of Chaya Rivka Bat Sheindl Sara.] In Eim Habanim Semeicha, Rav Teichtal...
[Please learn, pray and perform acts of lovingkindness for the refua sheleima of Chaya Rivka Bat Sheindl Sara.] "Keivan shegalu Yisrael mimkoman, ein lach...
One subject I generally steer clear of is the refusal on principle of certain European Gedolim to avail themselves of opportunities to depart for Eretz Yisrael...
The Gaon R. Yosef Eliyahu Henkin expands on the practical implications, outside the Holocaust context, of the notion that Israel is also a nation: "One of the...
********************************************************** Please learn, pray and perform acts of lovingkindness for the refua sheleima b'karov of Chaya Rivka...
See Aryeh Shore's instructive historical gloss below. Further input regarding the historical facts and how European Jews perceived the situation will be...
Today's leaders are different than Torah leaders had been in the past. So maybe it's proper to criticize today's rabbis when questionable decisions are made....
... I think that such an approach is just wrong and NOT based on Torah but on some kind of "group protection". To idealize a reality and painting it in pink -...
Interesting article. I have no quarrel with anything in it. However, it doesn't touch on the issue that I addressed one bit. If you feel that it is a Torah...
My daughter, Chaya Rivka a"h, passed away early Sunday morning. After a levaya in Chicago attended by nearly 1000 people, I travelled with Chaya to her...
Longing for the Old Country by Shmuel Sackett International Director, Manhigut Yehudit http://www.jewishisrael.org/ 10 Tamuz, 5767 June 26, 5767 [shtetl] A...
I'm taking off a few weeks from the Chaburah to make a siyum on Gemara Makot for the shloshim of my daughter, a"h. I hope to continue with the "Torah in...
This is from the Freidin Family Newsletter, http://www.zelva.org/newsletters/0903.htm - * Back to Dereczin Once Again....* I am among the skeptics who doesn't...
BS"D This is a strange and bizarre message (rant) which seems to have as much to do with authentic Jewish leadership in Eretz Yisrael as the likud party. I ...
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I agree with your contempt of Europe. I will try to explain why many look nostalgically at Europe. It is NOT because we miss Europe or its people or the hell...
... This is not even true. YOU JUST FORGET THAT MOST OF THE RISHONIM WERE NOT MID OR EASTERN EUROPEANS, and you probably never learnt anything coming out of...
I think that many of you are missing the purpose and the end result of Jewish Tours primarily to eastern Europe. For our young people,?they have never lived a...
Minding Our Own Business, Not God's But what of the alleged harm that observant Jews and Judaism are liable to suffer as a result of association with those who...
Ploni's Abundance of Caution R. Teichtal finds an important example of excessive caution in Megilat Ruth, in its narration of the events through which the...
[From a 1977 pamplet entitled "THE DUTY OF ALIYAH TO ERETZ ISRAEL" by Mishmeret-Tzeira of the Mizrachi and Hapoel Hamizrachi Movement and Rabbi Yohanan Fried,...
Jerry Joszef asked that I forward his message below to the full group. Jerry Joszef <jerry.joszef@...> wrote:Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 2:18 PM To:...
[From "To Dwell in the Palace - Perspectives on Eretz Yisrael." Source: http://www.rabbileff.net/shiurim/published/todwell.htm Hat tip to Toby Katz for calling...
PARASHAT PINCHAS Violence or Genuine Zealotry? (1991) Today it is not a compliment to be branded as a "zealot". In today's world where Torah concepts have been...
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Last week in Pasrshas Pinchas (27:12-14), we touched on Moshe Rabbeinu's approaching death, as well as his first sight of Eretz Yisroel at a distance from...
From Eim Habanim Semicha, page 303:* The Yerushalmi comments (Peah, Chap. 4) on David's statement (Divrei Hayamim I, 22), "Behold, in my affliction (be'anyi) I...