Jewish Religion

By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — It is at this point in time that we all begin to realize that the summer is ending. There is something about mid-August that says, “The summer is waning.” School children begin to experience the anxieties that come with the anticipation of the return to school; vacationers […]

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario –Who can say but that Michael Glassman was destined to spot this license plate?

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO –Tonight (Friday, Aug. 17) we celebrate Rosh Chodesh Elul, the beginning of the Hebrew month of Elul, which is the month immediately preceding Tishrei, whose first day is Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. The Rabbis wrote that the Hebrew letters that spell out Elul are an anagram for the

By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO –“K’rachaim av al banim, kain Tirachem aleinu…”  Like the mercy of a father on children, may You (G-d) have mercy upon us… [Liturgy] A little girl and her father were crossing a flimsy bridge. The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter:”Sweetheart, please hold my

RICHMOND HILL, Canada — Michael Glassman spotted this license plate proof that even in Ontario province, Jews occasonally have tsuris.

By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK– It was another one of those park bench discussions. I hadn’t seen my old friend Eli for quite some time. We would run into each other every couple of years, not because we planned it, but because we lived in the same city. We both loved to take

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Most of my work with interfaith couples has to do with Jews and Christians; they often come to me (at ‘Reconciliation: The Synagogue Without Walls’) after having been shunned or hurt by a rabbi or a priest or some such figure.  They love each other—and are told they

By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Rashi teaches us that not only do we need to be careful about the ‘big’ mitzvos, we have to be diligent with regards to performance of  the ‘small’ mitzvos – the mitzvos that are commonly ignored and ‘trampled’. No  one of us would ever think of robbing a

By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — As a parent, grandparent, and psychologist, I am often considered to be something of an expert on parenting and child-rearing. In that capacity, I have frequently been asked to review or give an opinion about any of the plethora of books on the subject of raising one’s