“If Your Brother Becomes Impoverished”
by Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald
In parashat Behar, the first of this week’s two parashiot, Behar-Bechukotai, we encounter the mitzvah requiring Jews to…
“Counting the ‘Special’ People”
by Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald
In last week’s parasha, parashat Bamidbar, after conducting a census of all the tribes of Israel and assigning each tribe a…
The Danube River is closely identified with the city through which it runs, Budapest, Hungary. Yet that river was defiled in late 1944.
On March 19, 1944, the German army conquered…
The Jewish people have often been cast as the proverbial "scapegoat." When millions died during the Black Plague, the Jews were accused of poisoning the wells. Blood libels accusing Jews…
The Jewish people have often been cast as the proverbial "scapegoat." When millions died during the Black Plague, the Jews were accused of poisoning the wells. Blood libels accusing Jews…
The Jewish people have often been cast as the proverbial "scapegoat." When millions died during the Black Plague, the Jews were accused of poisoning the wells. Blood libels accusing Jews…
The Jewish people have often been cast as the proverbial "scapegoat." When millions died during the Black Plague, the Jews were accused of poisoning the wells. Blood libels accusing Jews…
The Jewish people have often been cast as the proverbial “scapegoat.” When millions died during the Black Plague, the Jews were accused of poisoning the wells. Blood libels accusing…
Did you know that some Jewish philosophers maintain that there is truth to the idea of astrology, to reading the future from the alignment of the stars?
However, it is also true that God…
"The Torah's 'Secret' for Longevity"
by Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald
As we have noted in our previous studies of parashat Kee Teitzei, this coming week's parasha contains more mitzvot that…
