What grew Jewish communities in America was not the Rabbi of the synagogue, but those who built day schools to educate the next Jewish generation, as Moshe taught Yehoshua. Giving our children a strong Jewish education remains the singular way that we preserve a Jewish future.

Someone shared with me a fascinating story this morning (from the sefer "MiShulchan Gavohah"). The Brisker Rav, Rabbi Yitzchok Zev Halevi Soloveitchik, served as Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of Brisk (Brest, Belarus) prior to the Holocaust, under the hostile Communist...

This week's reading begins with the Commandment to prepare a red heifer for a special purification ritual. The calf was slaughtered and burned and its ashes mixed with water. Any person who came into contact with a dead person had to undergo a seven-day purification...

When Moshe sent the spies into the Land of Israel, he did not anticipate two wildly disparate reports regarding what they would find. An argument breaks out between the spies upon their return: only two of them, Kalev and Yehoshua (Joshua), say that Israel should...

When G-d begins to speak to the Jews at Mount Sinai, He says, "I am Hashem your G-d, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt." Commentaries ask, why is the Exodus from Egypt important in this context? If G-d is trying to establish His Identity and explain why Israel...

Either the Author of the Torah knew what He was doing, or He wanted to starve the Jews. The Torah Commands the Jews to observe a "Sabbatical of the Earth," a full year in which farming is prohibited. No planting means no reaping, no crops to sell. Now, you might think...