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This had never happened to me before. It was but a small matter, and now I can laugh about it, but at the time,...

The first feeling was shock. Terrible, heart-rending shock. How could Lakewood, and so many beyond Lakewood, carry on without Rav Shlomo Gissinger zt”l? His...

Returning from summer camp brings with it a bag of mixed emotions. There is a feeling of pride that we were zoche to make...

Last week, as Elul was approaching, I found myself on a plane traveling to the chasunah of a dear friend and former congregant. I...

We all know many of the acronyms for Elul, as taught by the Mishnah Berurah (581:1) and many others. But one that is not...

The Yated bids farewell and tzeischem leshalom to Avrohom Gabel, who delivered the Yated to Monsey-area stores for over ten years.

With less than two weeks for the Torah community to make its voice officially heard on the regulations that New York state has...

The children are coming home and the schools are setting up the desks. What are we supposed to be doing? To be sure, some...

I can never forget the day after Tisha B’Av at Camp Agudah in Port Carling, Ontario, where I spent many summers in my...

Rabbi Aharon Chaim (Ronnie) Harari-Raful z”l passed away on Monday. He was 55 years old. Reb Aharon Chaim was...

There’s a fellow in whose vicinity I find myself every once in a while, and each time, the experience, for me, is both somewhat...

The three-week period leading to the fast of Tisha B’Av is a time of mourning over the great calamities that have befallen our people...

Upon His Yahrtzeit, 13 Av Rav Yosef Eliyohu Henkin zt”l (5641/1881-5733/1973) was a gaon olam, well versed in all...

This Elul, the rapidly-growing community of Boca Raton, Florida, will be welcoming a crucial institution to its Torah landscape: the Boca Raton Kollel. The...

Part 2 As outlined in Part 1, in late November 1944, supreme SS commander Heinrich Himmler ordered a halt to the...

The concept of nine days of mourning for the loss of the Bais Hamikdosh is shrouded in mystery. We know what happened...

We all know that the Bais Hamikdosh was destroyed on account of the aveirah of sinas chinam. Sinah manifests in many ways, including failing...

“And the tikkun chatzos of our rebbe (Rav Shmuel Dov Ungar, the Nitra Rov)…whoever heard it once in his lifetime, could he possibly forget...

For 76 years, Rav Reuven Scheiner’s day revolved around Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, from his teenage years walking to his beloved yeshiva around the corner from...

Part 1 Early in the morning of November 25, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau awoke to a deafening explosion. Peering from their...