Category: 2026

Two Pillars of Geulah and Emunah When Bnei Yisroel walked into the raging sea, they were not merely crossing a body of water. They were crossing a threshold of emunah – one that would define the Jewish People for all generations. By: Rabbi Dovid Samuels Pesach in Two Acts Most of us think of Pesach as a single event – the night the Jewish People left Mitzrayim. Yet the Yom Tov itself tells a different story. Pesach spans eight days, and those eight days commemorate two distinct pillars of our…

Post-Traumatic Stress and Post-Traumatic Growth in Israel By: Paula Levin On 6 October 2023, Adir* was a loving husband and father of four. On the afternoon of 7 October, he joined his commando unit and remained on active duty for 487 days, fighting Hamas and Hezbollah in hand-to-hand combat. When he returned home, his children barely remembered him. He struggled to tell his wife what he had seen and experienced, and decided to move forward and put the war behind him. After lashing out violently in his sleep on two…

The “special relationship” between Jews, Iranians, and the Iran that once was By: Ilan Preskovsky It’s genuinely been quite astonishing to see the way the anti-Israel crowd is able to twist and distort any argument you throw their way. It’s almost always illogical, ignorant, and frequently outright nonsensical, but it’s impressive in a mental-contortionist kind of way. One of the more memorable recent examples of this is when, confronted with the – I would think – reasonable question of where all the “pro-Palestinian” activists and celebrities have gone in the…

The Lamb Leader By: Rabbi Moishe Schnerb As we array ourselves around the Seder table on Pesach night, we open our well-worn, wine-stained and crumb-littered Haggados to once again read and discuss the account of our forefathers, and indeed our sojourn through the trials and travails of our Egyptian exile. After the opening preliminaries of Kiddush, and the tiniest sliver of food – just enough to remind us how hungry we actually are – we begin the recital of these time-honoured paragraphs. Ma Nishtana piques our curiosity as to what…

…and Affection By: Rabbi Dr David Fox When my great Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Simcha Wasserman ztz”l, finally left Los Angeles for Jerusalem, I missed his warmth and guidance. My parents a”h too had a close relationship with him, and it was hard for us to accept that Los Angeles no longer had his presence in our midst. He had been our role model for the breadth of Torah Judaism: in his scholarship, his communication skills, his teaching, and in the ways in which he interacted with everyone who turned to…