A century and a half ago, two of the greatest Halachic works, the Aruch Hashulchan, written by Rabbi Yechiel Epstein, the rabbi of Novardhok, and the Mishna Berura, written by the great Chafetz ...

For years, Rabbi Aryeh A. Frimer “devoured” commentaries on the Haggadah. Now he is presenting his own Haggadah, with commentaries culled from copious notes he has taken over the years. In ...

Our job on seder night is to hear the questions of the next generation, as the Mishna commands: “according to the interest of the child – the parent teaches.” But what of the parental response?

Photo courtesy of the National Library of Israel The familiar “Four Questions” beginning with “Ma Nishtana” originally consisted of only three questions. The Mishnah (second century CE) listed ...

Among those who participated in the "March for Conscription" on Wednesday in Jerusalem, which called for the conscription of those in the haredi community in the IDF, was the Rabbi of the town of ...