Category: 2026

The de-volution of man By: Rabbi Dr David Fox Summer in California was from June through August, school was out, and we had three months to holiday or take it easy. I would spend much of my summer in the yeshiva although it was not in session, and would have more time to interact with my great mentor, Rav Simcha Wasserman ztz”l. Meanwhile, after summer holiday we would all reunite once yeshiva was back in session, comparing notes about what we had accomplished during our long break. During those years…

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Education feature Let’s start with why By: Paula Levin “Mom, exams are over, why do I still need to go to school?” my 12-year-old daughter recently asked me, with a week of school still to go. And it seems like a fair question – if school is about grades and reports. Somewhere along the line, for many children, teachers and parents, school has become conflated with academic outcomes. So what is school for? One young adult I know once told me that school is basically babysitting – so parents are…

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Purim’s eternal message By: Rabbi Dovid Samuels There is a well-known but difficult teaching from Chazal[1] that all the festivals are destined to be nullified in the World to Come – all except Purim, which will endure forever, as it says[2], “And these days of Purim shall not pass away from among the Jews.” But what makes Purim so special? Is the miracle of Purim somehow greater than the Exodus from Egypt or the Splitting of the Sea? What’s more, the miracle of Purim occurred in a hidden manner, unfolding…

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