My Perspective

In a panel Q and A session, the question was asked: Why is a hechsher given to unhealthy food? Meaning, if we are supposed to take care of o...

I was given a booklet with excerpts from the lectures of Rabbi Shaul Yitzchak Rabinowitz of Satmar.  The booklet is in Yiddish with Engli...

I came across this question: What message should our children or guests or ourselves leave the seder with? That's a good one to pon...

For those looking for areas to focus on that relate directly to fire, here are some ideas: Yechiel Spero points out, fire and Shabbos a...

  “Who ever heard of such a thing? It is like one family’s Holocaust!” Indeed, one would be hard-pressed to find a calamity of such pro...

The following is a direct quote from a very hospitable person who shared this fascinating observation about a special person: When M. i...

A child came home from school with the story about Avrohom Avinu but something went wrong in the transmission.  The child said that Avrohom ...

The following is from a foodie's* article in Ami: Fifteen years ago, as a restaurant owner, she wanted to introduce sushi to her cl...

How many frum people understand the format of Maggid in the Haggada, that it's an analysis of four pesukim? (Oh! That's why those wo...

I read a question posed to Avi Shulman.  It was posed by a 6th grade rebbi who said that on Purim three of his students, ages 11-12, brough...

I was in a Jewish library which is frequented by many Yiddish speaking people.  Not for the first time, I heard a mother tell her child to ...

I was reading a paragraph in a new Feldheim book which said, "He [Hashem] gave us the mitzvos in order to afford us the opportunity to ...

I have seen a man in my neighborhood, quite an elderly man, who said he saw the grandson of the man who was blessed by the Baal Shem Tov and...

There was a news item about  illegal housing no longer being tolerated anywhere in Rockland (the Monsey area). " An upcoming plan expec...

Ami magazine has a column which features a successful businessman.  He is interviewed and is asked how he got started, what was the best adv...