4+ hour, 27+ min ago  (828+ words) A matzah bakery in Bucharest, Romania, provides essential employment to refugees forced to flee Odesa during the Russian bombardments of Ukraine. For the refugees of Ukraine, hope is now found in a box of matzah." For the displaced Jewish community…...

8+ hour, 11+ min ago  (643+ words) Courtesy of Yeshiva University To realize that my beloved friend of seventy years, Rabbi Julius Berman, has left this world, is extremely painful." Just six months ago'when I celebrated my big birthday at the annualsiyumat Yeshiva University'Julie surprised me by…...

8+ hour, 13+ min ago  (1026+ words) It was Friday night at Kharkiv's Beis Menachem, the only operating shul in Ukraine's second-largest city. About a hundred people, mostly parents with children, had gathered to celebrate Shabbat. To break the ice, Miriam Moskovitz, the shul's Australian-born Chabad'rebbetzin,'posed…...

6+ hour, 50+ min ago  (72+ words) The Making of the Siddur: The History, Development, and Halachos of the Siddur By Rabbi Moshe Walter Stories & Halachah from the Psychiatrist's Couch By Dr. Yaakov Freedman and Rabbi Akiva Dershowitz The Torah is not meant to eliminate all human…...

11+ hour, 51+ min ago  (247+ words) Aggadot HaRav: The Lectures of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik on Aggadah, Stephen Neuwirth Edition Edited by Rabbi Yaakov Hoffman In another chapter, the Rav addresses the philosophy of Jewish history, triggered by the dialogue between Beruriah and a heretic regarding the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (249+ words) A Message for Martin Luther King Jr. Day'Jewish Action It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It's a day when all of us could pause and dream. We still need to dream. We need to dream about the eradication of hatred....