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Harav Yehudah Zev Segal, Zt”l, the Manchester Rosh Yeshivah
A quarter of a century has passed since the world was shaken by the passing of the great tzaddik Harav Yehudah Zev Segal, zt”l. Harav Segal was known universally as…
HUMOR: If You Can’t Beat the System …
Dumb criminals get a bad rap. They make one mistake in their lives — besides the crimes, obviously — and everyone makes fun of them. If you’re a dumb criminal…
Revealed Yet Hidden: An Appreciation of Harav Chaim Yisroel Belsky, zt”l, in Honor of His Second Yahrtzeit, 19 Shevat
By Rabbi Shimon Finkelman It was some 20 years ago in Camp Agudah on Shabbos Parashas Pinchas. Rav Belsky was delivering a short dvar Torah at the kiddush following davening…
HUMOR: I’ll Sleep When I’m Home
By Mordechai Schmutter If you have an eighth-grader, then you’ve probably put some serious thought so far into where your son is going for high school, unless there’s one that you…
Save My Shabbos Meals!
As told to Tzipie Wolner If you were to recall one scene from your childhood, what would it be? “Well,” Mindy once said, “I certainly hope my kids are not…
Shabbat’s Shalom
By Rabbi Y.Y. Rubinstein “At the moment of Mattan Torah, Hashem spoke to the Jewish people and said, ‘My sons, there is a wonderful possession I have in the world.…
It Takes All Year! Matzos From Field to Table
By Nissi Unger He was wearing a black beanie and had long, shiny black hair. That’s all I saw through the peephole. Oh, and a flashlight. He was carrying a…
HUMOR: It’s a Hardware Problem
In this day and age of computers doing everything for us, one of the few things that we still have to do manually is set up a new computer. And…
Inseparable from the Kosel: Remembering Rabbi Menachem Mendel Reuven Gefner, zt”l, Upon His 30th Yahrtzeit, 18 Teves
By Rabbi Baruch Gefner Ever since our people were exiled from Eretz Yisrael, the thought of Yerushalayim has intensified in our collective heart. We mourned over it, dreamed about it,…
Brachos by the Billions
By Meir Niv “So, what would you like to receive as your reward?” the king of India asked the honoree of the evening, a man who had recently invented…
The Scud War Remembered
By Baila Marcus Twenty-six years ago, as a newlywed, I learned how to fry schnitzel and iron my husband’s shirts. After several months of marriage, worrying bits of information filtered…
Too Busy to Read This?
By Rabbi Yaakov Barr, MSc, PGDip, BABCP Accreditation Today, everyone is busy. I had a chat with a friend recently that went something like this: “How is everything going?” my…
The Torah Wellspring of Harav Pinchas Hirschprung, Zt”l, Chief Rabbi of Montreal
BY MENACHEM POLLAK Harav Pinchas Hirschprung (5672/1912–5758/1998), whose 20th yahrtzeit was Sunday, 27 Teves, was a gaon olam who would dazzle his audience with his wide breadth of knowledge of…
Beyond Survival: The Incredible Triumph of Reb Mendel Tessler
BY MIRIAM GOTTLIEB The Holocaust. The hate, the horror, the throbbing hurt of a nation in ruin. Rivers of ink, museums of memorabilia, and so many words still falling woefully…
HUMOR: Taking Us to the Cleaners
I will freely admit that I don’t understand how dry cleaners work. How do they get that stuff clean? And without water! Everyone says, “They use chemicals.” They say it…
Glassblower/Artist: Sheva Chaya Shaiman
BY MENUCHA CHANA LEVIN Creative, gracious, original, colorful, inspiring … in these ways Sheva Chaya Shaiman is similar to the unique works of art she produces. An expressive watercolor artist…
Pillar of Fire: Harav Fishel, the Saba Kaddisha of Strikov, on the Occasion of His Yahrtzeit, 17 Teves
BY HARAV NECHEMIA PINKESOVIC Harav Yosef Yehudah was a member of the inner circle of the Maggid of Mezeritch and Harav Yaakov Yosef of Polnoye. While he was living in…
Your Money or Your Life
A true story, as told to RINA BERMAN Though I didn’t know it at the time, my ordeal began when my husband inherited some stocks from his grandfather, z”l, and…
HUMOR: ‘Above Average’ Doesn’t Say Much
BY MORDECHAI SCHMUTTER A new study in Britain says that driving makes people less intelligent. And I say, “Baruch Hashem.” I thought it was just me. But that does explain…