Rov Menachem Mendel Kahn, Rov for Safrus on the Crown Heights Beis Din, joins the Vaad HaRabbonim of Mishmeres STaM ...

By Bentzion Pearson  Each year, as the season of “Yud Shvat” arrives, the thoughts of a chossid naturally turn to that ...

In every generation, the question is not whether the challenges are new, but whether we are prepared to respond with the same ...

Meeting between Lithuanian-haredi leaders and hasidic rebbes concludes without agreement on Draft Law position.

The Ashlag Rebbe, Rabbi Simcha Avraham Halevy’s weekly talk last Shabbat included some sharp comments on the social wedge issue of equality in shouldering the military burden in Israel and the ...

Earlier this week, my colleagues and I were discussing the Rebbe’s Rashi project. After the passing of his mother in 1964, the Rebbe began a project in which he examined the Torah interpretations of ...

I had never been to this particular shul before, this renovated hospital turned into a synagogue about two miles from where I grew up in Brooklyn. Nor had I ever prayed with chasidim. But the ...

As we noted in our last column, each of the first two paragraphs of Shema includes a verse commanding us to teach Torah to children. The fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer (the Rebbe Rashab, ...

It was a muggy summer morning in Melbourne, Australia. Following the Shachris (morning) service, my fellow rabbinical students and I made our way to the yeshiva dining room. Knowing that we wouldn’t ...

Masechet Avot originally consisted of five perakim. To continue its study on the sixth Shabbat between Pesach and Shavuot, a sixth perek was added to the masechet. As that Shabbat generally falls out ...