2+ hour, 12+ min ago  (4+ words) The Verse'The Jewish Press...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (554+ words) When the Beis HaMikdash stood in its glory, the streets in cities throughout Israel hummed with purpose after Purim. Special stands were set up to collect the annual machatzis hashekel, mentioned in Parshas Ki Sisa, primarily used to purchase communal…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (657+ words) Rav Elchonon Wasserman in the 1930s'The Jewish Press This week, I was granted the singular privilege of brokering the transfer of a manuscript that is not merely rare, but profoundly historic. The complete manuscript of Kuntres Da'as Torah, authored by…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1635+ words) The Cultural Judaism of Lise Meitner'The Jewish Press Though the dramatic splitting of the atom " nuclear fission " was a discovery which vastly changed the world, few know that it was Elise (Lise) Meitner (1878-1968), a Jewish female physicist, who discovered the…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (532+ words) Most businesses are hiding something. Not fraud. Not deception. Something quieter. Their real value is often invisible to those who do not know how to look. That single insight changed everything. This was not a commodity business competing on price....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (191+ words) Title: Undaunted: How the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, Saved Russian Jewry, Reimagined American Judaism, and Ignited a Global Jewish Renaissance By David Eliezrie Toby Press Reviewed by Noah Rothstein The book moves chronologically through the Rebbe's life,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (635+ words) My veteran readers will remember that sometimes I imagine a simulated, fictional interview with the Yeitzer Hara to give us an inner look into the machinations of the one whose mission is to cause us to sin. So, I hope…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (3+ words) Parshas Tetzaveh'jewishpress.com...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (470+ words) At first glance, Tu B'Shevat, the Rosh Hashanah for fruit trees, seems to be of mere technical significance " the calendar marker for the yearly mitzvot that pertain to fruits. Yet, surprisingly, we treat it as a minor holiday on which…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1198+ words) Avraham Levitt is a poet and philosopher living in Samaria. He has written extensively on Jewish and Israeli art, music, and spirituality. He is particularly focused on Hebrew philology and the magic of late antiquity. He can be contacted at…...