Years ago, The Jewish Press ran a regular feature called Halachic Corner with Rav Hershel Schachter. Elliott Resnick asked the questions to R’ Schachter. One of those exchanges stuck in my head, but I have not been able to find…
Rabbi Hershel Schachter Several times a year I visit Eretz Yisroel. When I take a night flight I notice that many men sleep for five to six hours, and then recite Shema and daven Shacharis after waking up, as if they were at a seven…
June 24, 2018 Interviews conducted by Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Chief Editor You’re supposed to if the flower has a good smell. Hardly anyone does, though. They don’t know. Years ago, a new baalas teshuvah was speaking to me at…
The following is from the column Halachic Corner With Rav Hershel Schachter that appeared on page 23 of the 8/10/18 issue of the Jewish Press We consider kiverei tzaddikim holy locations, so we pray to Hakadosh Baruch – not to the tzaddikim -that in the zechus of…
By Rabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin – 26 Elul 5778 – September 5, 2018 The swordfish is one of the most extraordinary creatures in the sea. One of the largest, fastest, and most aggressive of all bony fishes, it starts its…
By Barbara Bensoussan | August 5, 2025 Who doesn’t love a good magic trick, especially when the joke’s on you? From spontaneous sleight of hand as he strolls through the park looking for volunteers, to upscale dinner parties and even…
03/10/2019 Kahane spoke of Jewish pain and power. Of Asuchwitz and of American Jewish passivity. He protected elderly Jews and fought for Soviet Jewry, but he also had followers who commitedreprehensible actions. I never knew Rabbi Meir Kahane, but I…
Rabbi Gershom Baraza; Kosher Check’s Man in China WRITTEN BY DAVID LITVAK, CASCADIA PUBLISHING Pesach 2024 Issue of Kosher Check Kosher Check, a renowned kashrut organization with a global presence, takes great pride in its dedicated team of mashgichim who…
I Belong To A NationI belong to a nationThe oldest in the archivesI Belong to a nationThat no historian understoodI belong to a nationAs well as the nature from beneath itI belong to a nationFrom before whom a great sea…
By Steven Gutkin Associated Press Zebulon Simentov, 42, holds a peeling poster containing Judaic themes in Kabul, Afghanistan. Kabul’s last two Jews, Simentov and Isaq Levin live at separate ends of the same decaying synagogue in the capital of Kabul…