My Perspective

I received an email with a link to a fundraising effort of a seminary girl.  She was finishing a year of seminary and wanted to remain fo...

The picture is the "Star of Life," which is the emblem used on ambulances.  What does the symbol represent? A search online says...

Azriela Jaffe wrote an article in Ami about a man in her community, Steve, who was working as an accountant and hated it.  His wife told him...

I just finished reading "Inside Their Homes".  It was fabulous! I wrote the author to tell him so. The book is about Binyamin a...

Long ago here, I wrote that "guilt" is considered negative and not Jewish and I wondered about how that fits with the idea of cha...

When we describe a child, a young person, or anyone as "mature," what do we mean by that? Some characteristics are: the ability ...

Tsirel attended Gateshead seminary.  One Lag B'Omer, the school went on an outing and a boat trip.  She knew that her parents were oppos...

In a write-up about a ger who is a Chassid and dresses as one, he says that when he first saw Chassidim, he did not relate to their clothes ...

  The cover of the book gives no hint as to the contents.  Under the title it says, "True stories of inner work, inner growth and i...

I was reading an old Binah magazine which has an extensive tznius section, highlighting various tznius initiatives. They interviewed a wom...

We often read or hear about fulfilling our tafkid, our life's mission.  Aside from learning Torah and doing mitzvos, which is incumbent ...

Rabbi Bender, rosh yeshiva of Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway, and renowned mechanech, strongly promotes spending time with family.  He wri...

Years ago, when I read the line, "S/he's doing the best s/he can with the tools s/he has," to put a positive spin on a negativ...

Rabbi L. of Flatbush has a granddaughter in a coma (may she have a refuah shleima).  He reported that the doctor was asked what her prognosi...

The following letter was printed in Binah magazine in March 2015: "I live in a community where boxes are getting smaller and smaller,...