I would like to announce a new blog project that I am working on: Parsha Blog. From the mission statement: The purpose of this blog is to provide a constant stream of bite-size Divrei Torah relating to the Torah portion of the week. Unlike many other parsha-related sites on the Internet, the typical article on [...]

One the people with whom I daven in the morning stopped me a couple of days ago. After the normal “Wow you are making aliyah…when are you going…where are you going to” conversation, he asked me the following: “I know a family who made aliyah a number of years ago when their children were small. [...]

At a big pot-luck meal we attended on Shemini Atzeret night, someone there said to me: “You are making aliyah soon. Can you give me some aliyah mussar? Right now I just can’t think of any good reason for me to go”. Now this is the type of request that I wish people would make [...]