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Report: New ‘Achi’ Party Courts Senior Sephardic Rabbanim in Potential Blow to Shas - Israel’s newly formed Achi party is reportedly engaged in advanced talks with several prominent Sephardic rabbinic leaders, including one current member of...
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Toras Aba

Do Miracles Build Emunah—or Weaken It? - פרשת ראה ונתן אליך אות או מופת מופתים #1 The חיי אדם כלל א' סעיף ה' writes that אמונה shouldn't and doesn't come from observing מופתים which is usually...
1 hour ago
Hirhurim - Musings

Officiating at an Intermarriage - by R. Gil Student Is a rabbi allowed to officiate at an intermarriage, a wedding between a Jew and a gentile? Nearly all halakhically observant Jews will i...
16 hours ago
Chaptzem Blog!

Israel-bashing activist who collaborated with Rama Duwaji rants about Jewish people ‘whining’ about the Holocaust: ‘Lost its meaning’ - An Israel-bashing activist who collaborated on an art project with the city’s first lady Rama Duwaji mocked Jewish people for “whining” about the Holocaust...
19 hours ago
Cross-Currents

Is It Really a War Against Torah? - By Rabbi Yehuda L Oppenheimer In two recent Mishpacha articles—“A Manufactured Deadlock” and “Friend or Foe?”— Eli Paley presents what many readers may r...
23 hours ago
YGB - יג"ב

Torah Im Derech Eretz: Rabbi Dr Isaac Breuer's Moriah pt 7: The Tower of Babel, Nations vs. Justice - Fathom Summary: Moriah by Rabbi Dr Isaac Breuer Meeting Purpose Reviewing Rabbi Dr. Isaac Breuer's philosophy on the modern state. Key Takeaways ...
1 day ago
Life in Israel

Halacha Headlines: 8/1/26 – Shiur 570 – Jews in America 1776 - Jews in America 2026 - Anti Semitism In America (audio) - ------------------------------------------------------ *Reach thousands of readers with your ad by advertising on Life in Israel* -------------------...
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Yaakov Astor's Blog

Parshas Eikev: The Things We Step On - The Things We Step On A Slab of Watermelon Rav Avigdor Miller used to ask why Rosh Hashanah comes at the end of the summer. His answer was that Hashem is t...
3 days ago
Gruntig!

LIVE: Tu B'av - One Day. One Nation. One Tefillah - Tu B'Av Together is a global Jewish day of prayer (tefillah) organized by Yad L'Achim to pray for singles seeking marriage (shidduchim), featuring free onl...
5 days ago
the Seforim blog

על הלכות בעל קרי בסידור בית יעקב - על הלכות בעל קרי בסידור בית יעקב by: Gabriel Wasserman English abstract: Siddur Bet Ya‘akov (Warsaw, 1881) is based on R. Jacob Emden’s siddur Ammudé Shama...
1 week ago
Beyond BT

Hug Your Neighbor Like Yourself - I went out to lunch with a friend a few weeks ago. We often talk about a range of topics. Toward the end, we drifted into one we both knew we should avoi...
1 week ago
On the Main Line

I finally wrote something worth sharing - https://open.substack.com/pub/shimonsteinmetz/p/ve-heishiv-leiv-avos-al-banim-ve
3 weeks ago
The partial view

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1 year ago
Geshmack Torah - Hot off the press

Sign Up to Our Newsletter! - Redux: adjective – resurgence; refers to being brought back, restored, or revived; something familiar presented in a new way. Not to see what no one else h...
5 years ago
TREASURES OF ASHKENAZ

Lag Baomer and Chinuch -ל”ג בעומר ומצות חינוך - We recently read פרשת אמור אל הכהנים, where we are taught the important lesson, להזהיר גדולים על הקטנים, that not only gedolim/adults are obligated in the ...
7 years ago
כבוד התורה

Dvar Torah - Titzave - Rabbi Yitzchok Wolpin - This week we are privileged to read the portion of Titzave. The portion begins with the mitzvah of preparing proper olive oil in order to kindle the Menor...
7 years ago
The Slifkin Challenge

R' Gil Student's Overview of the Esoteric Vs. Harmonistic Debate and Dr. Slifkin (Corrected Link) - Just before Pesach, I came across Rabbi Gil Student's Overview of the two vastly disparate approaches to the Rambam. Here is his basic outline of the two...
9 years ago
HaMavdil

Tikun Olam vs. Tikun Hameuvas - Many bloggers ostensibly go into blogging to participate in Tikun Olam. They see suffering and write to diminish it, they observe injustice and post t...
11 years ago
Voice From The Wilderness

Why Do Orthodox Women Need Female Yoatzot? - Let's take a quick survey of the reasons given by Orthodox feminists for the need to train female Yoatzot to answer questions specifically in the realm of ...
11 years ago
A nigun a day. It's that simple.

TTT :: Sois Osis • Dovid Gabay - So vanilla as to not even be terrible. It's just not...anything. Lyrics are indiscernible, harmonies are haphazard, and yet, this tune almost escaped being...
12 years ago
JEWISH MUSIC PLUS

Ari Goldwag - I'm Imperfect - A Cappella - Official Video -
12 years ago
Yeshivaman

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13 years ago
Haredi And Proud

Signing Off - When I first started blogging, it was before the Asifa. Post-asifa, there arose the question whether I could (and should) continue. Consulting my mentor, w...
14 years ago
אישים ושיטות

A description of, and conversation with the great R' Yisroel Moshe Chazan - Following is a passage from "Nach Jerusalem" by Ludwig Frankl (pg. 4 of translation): I reached, after walking a considerable distance, the stately house o...
15 years ago
Hirhurim - Musings

This Blog Has Moved - After a great get-together last night, we are ready to move the blog to a new format that has more functionality and is more esthetically pleasing. Please ...
16 years ago

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