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In its current form, the day school system is unsustainable. With tuition increases consistently at…

“It happened that Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah, Rabbi Akiva and…

The line between greatness and failure is so small as to be unrecognizable, often revealing itself…

It is hard to imagine a more impactful ritual than that of our weekly Torah reading. While its…

Our Rabbis saw a link between the spiritual sin of lashon hara, slander and gossip, and the…

In watching the leadership debate I was struck and almost regardless of the question or issue being…

Technological advances are rapidly changing the nature of almost all that we do. Many of the…

In an almost unbelievable application of the verse, “Love your neighbour as yourself”, our Sages…

The primacy of Shabbat as the foundation stone of Judaism is self-evident. Shabbat is the …

We have all been taught that it is the holiday of Shavuot that commemorates the giving of the…

It is rare indeed to look to professional athletes for moral guidance. We learned long ago that the…

Knowing the right people is, more often than not, the key to success in the modern world. We in…

Our long sojourn in Egypt was meant to develop those character traits necessary to transform the…

“And Pharaoh awoke, he and all his officials and all the rest of Egypt. There was a great cry…

“He kissed all his brothers and wept on their shoulders, and afterwards his brothers spoke with him…

We tend to assume that, with the recital of the shir shel yom, the daily psalm—or Aleinu…

One of the key aspects of the world of business is the crucial importance of the bottom line. And…

It is for good reason that co-wives are described as tzarot, literally, problems. Competing as they…