With a new spin on her ג€What Would You Doג€ Series, Ahuva Genish returns to help kids learn how to view other people positively. What Do You Think It Was All About? is an innovative tool to help children get started with the skill of dan l'kaf zechus. In each of the nine mini-stories to […]
Written with wisdom, straight from the heart, this compassionate, soothing, and eminently valuable book is so warm and personal that it is as if the author, a rewnowned teacher and rebbetzin, is speaking privately to the reader. Rich with concrete, time-tested advice for brides-to-be and newlyweds, culled from the teachings of our Sages, and Torah […]
Quick: Name the 7 conditions that allow you to say lashon hara about another personג€¦ Can't do that? Alright, how about the 5 conditions for telling rechilus l'toelesג€¦ Still clueless? Okay, don't panic: What are the 3 types of harm lashon hara can cause a fellow Jew? If you're completely stumped (or even if you're […]
The Book of Tehillim is a very precious gift given to us by King David. Written with profound spiritual insight, the Psalms bring G-dג€™s presence into our lives ג€“ into our hopes and dreams, our hardships and struggles. We have always turned to them in times of joy and of trouble. Just saying the words […]
The contemporary Torah society did not evolve out of a vacuum. There were three paramount leaders whose insight, far-sight, devotion and innovation changed, indeed created, the Yeshivah and Bais Yaakov world of today. Each one faced what appeared to be the annihilation of the religious infrastructure as they knew it, and they responded with far-reaching […]
The eagerly-awaited AHRELE-4 is finally here! Many children struggle with various difficulties and challenges and as a result feel very, very sad and unfortunate. Loyal readers who have followed the Ahrele series know my life story. You know that I, too, had to cope with extremely difficult challenges from a very young age. I, too, […]
The modern day workplace presents Jewish men and women with a constant array of obvious as well as subtle challenges, and now there is this go-to-guide for practical halachic solutions! From business meetings in non-kosher restaurants, shaking hands with the opposite gender, wearing a kippah, social gatherings and holiday partiesג€¦to yichud, personal use of office […]
The Shemittah year is fast approaching and with it come many questions: What is a prozbul and how will it help me collect my loans? I live in New York; my son says that I have to send my esrog back to Israel because of biur. Whatג€™s going on? I have a bottle of wine […]
The stirring memoir of the courage and strength of Beth Jacob students and the acts of kindness and heroism they performed even while caught between the jaws of the Nazi monster. In the ghettos and in the concentration camps, the fire of Torah and faith burned strong and clear in the hearts of these young […]
The teachings of Pirkei Avos are timeless and contain answers to the moral challenges of every generation. The particular application of those messages to the needs of each generation, however, changes according to the times. As such, every generation needs to delve anew into the words of Chazal to discover how to apply the eternal […]
