My Perspective

In an article about challa baking, one woman who was interviewed said she started making challa when her son was sick. She wanted to bake ch...

Overheard today: A mother says to her little boy, about 4 years old, "Your behavior was unacceptable ... right?" Sigh. It...

In 1923, Japan experienced a devastating earthquake.  In addition, or as a result of the earthquake, there were a typhoon, landslides and a ...

I heard a lecture in which Yossi Mizrachi asks why Madoff became a headline for fraud when stealing, in the halachic hierarchy, is a far les...

On April 11, 1956, Rosh Chodesh Iyar, fedayeen terrorists entered a shul in Kfar Chabad during maariv and started shooting. Five children an...

There was a chubby, frum lady lady on the subway with a chubby child, maybe 15 months old, in a stroller.  The child was eating potato chips...

Rabbi Bergstein (a Bobover Chassid who  lectures for Aish HaTorah, Discovery, Gateway and other organizations) points out: If the Chol ...

There are various times during the Seder that are auspicious for tefilla: 1) Right before the Ma Nishtana, it says in the Haggada, "v...

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 ...