Moshe Kempinski Life Lessons from the Torah Portion Parshat Terumah Exodus 25:1-27:19 In every soul there is a spark. In every created being there is a whisper of the breath Hashem breathed into His creation. It is that spark that moves us forward and upward. The Torah portion of Trumah gives us an insight into … Read more
Moshe Kempinski Life Lessons from the Torah Portion Parshat Mishpatim Exodus 21:1–24:18 After the awesome and somewhat frightening experience at the foot of Mount Sinai we read the following: “And these ( Ve-Eileh) are the ordinances that you shall set before them.” (Exodus 21:1) Rashi explains that the words ”, “And these,-Ve-Eileh” are meant to … Read more
Editorial of The New York Sun | February 16, 2017 A star is born is our reaction to the first press briefing by President Trump’s new ambassador at the United Nations. The ex-governor of South Carolina was ridiculed by the Left when the president first sent her nomination up to the Hill, owing to her … Read more
Rabbi Chanan Morisson The Talmud (Berachot 10b) tells a puzzling story about the righteous king Hezekiah. It is related that the king secreted away the medical books of his day. Why? King Hezekiah felt that the people relied too heavily on the prescriptions described in those texts, and did not pray to God to heal … Read more
Dr. Joel Fishman, It has been done before.During the war in Vietnam, the North Vietnamese also launched the “Two-State” formula in order to hide their true strategic goal. For some time, the mantra known as the so-called “Two-State Solution,” has been presented in the media as a desirable goal, one that Israel and the Palestinian … Read more
by Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein One of the great miracles of world history is the eternal vibrancy and relevance of Torah. It was with mixed emotions that I visited Humboldt University in Berlin a few weeks ago to deliver the annual Hildesheimer lecture on Jewish law. Humboldt is Berlin’s oldest university. Marx and Engels studied … Read more
Moshe Kempinski Life Lessons from the Torah Portion Parshat Yitro Exodus 18:1-20:23 Moshe Kempinski As the people of Israel experienced the awesome and dramatic revelation of G-d’s word on Mount Sinai we read the following description; “And all the people saw the voices( et HaKolot) and the torches, the sound of the shofar, and the … Read more
by Noah Beck Jerusalem has a long and bloody history of being manipulated by Muslim leaders into an explosive tool of incitement. Palestinian and other Arab leaders threatened violence in response to President Trump’s pledge to move the U.S. embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem. While Bill Clinton and George W. Bush also promised such a … Read more
