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The Perfect Parent

Excerpted from “FOREVER HIS STUDENTS” – lessons on contemporary life inspired by the teachings of Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg. (Final question from “Rav Yaakov Weinberg Talks About Chinuch,” edited by Rabbi Doniel Frank) Published by: Targum...

Teachers

Teachers and education are in the forefront of the news here in Israel what with the long strike of secondary school teachers and the somewhat disappointing ranking of Israeli school children in certain subject ratings. Even though there is general consensus that...

Generations

In Jewish life, family generations have always played a prominent role. We are bidden to procreate and create generations, whether through actual biological children, students and disciples, intellectual works and contributions or memories carried on by friends and...

The Past is our Future

Excerpted from “THE WISDOM WITHIN” – Published by www.targum.com. Appropriately, the one time of the year that we place particular emphasis on the involvement of the children is Seder night. This is accomplished by the obligation to tell over the...

Purim, Passports, & Ahmadinejad

Listening to the Megila this Purim, I could not help thinking about a latter-day Haman from Persia, who also boasts of his desire to wipe out, annihilate, destroy and kill every Jew in Israel. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has had a way of late of insinuating himself into the...