Rabbi Aaron I. Reichel, Esq., is a New York attorney who has written many articles on secular and Jewish topics, and has written, edited, and/or supplemented various biographies, most notably of Rabbi ...

Abulafia describes the initial encounter with prophetic awareness and how it impacts the recipient. The “use” that can be made of prophecy is highly contingent upon the preparation and training of the ...

We have another example of this phenomenon in recent times. We called the Gadol HaDor by the title Reb, namely, Reb Moshe Feinstein, zt”l, zy”a. The man who himself gave smicha (rabbinic ordination) ...

Saul Jay Singer serves as senior legal ethics counsel with the District of Columbia Bar and is a collector of extraordinary original Judaica documents and letters. He welcomes comments at at sauljsing ...

Sandy Koufax turned 90 years old two days before 2025 ended. Sandy looked absolutely dandy on his birthday. On December 30, he wore a beautiful blue suit, matching blue tie with decorative circles and ...

On Shabbat, when I can’t read my X feed, I usually read the newspaper and magazines, and recently I was reading a local magazine we get in our mailbox once a month. On one of the last pages, a small ...

Chizuk can be translated as strength or encouragement. But it’s not about pushing harder or “being strong” in the way we usually think about it. Chizuk is the kind of strength that comes from being ...

The Jewish Press joins Klal Yisrael in mourning the death of Rabbi Julius Berman, for more than half a century a foremost leader in its emergence as a force on the American scene. A gifted lawyer and ...

Among the more curious acquisitions to cross my desk this week was a pair of rare Talmud volumes that owe their existence to one of the most brilliant – and most vexing – rabbinic figures of the early ...