Category: <span>Aliyah Issues</span>

Parshat Shlach, The “Mother of All” Pilot Trips Gone Bad

One of the big “misnomers” in Jewish Parshat Shavua, Torah Portion of the Week is calling this week’s parsha, Shlach-Send “The Sin of the Spies.” The very large and honorable delegation sent off to scout out, or more accurately to stake out the Holy Land weren’t called מרגלים miraglim, spies in the Biblical …

No Stories to Tell – A Shrink’s Journey to Orthodox Judaism

Life goes better when someone else makes the mistakes but you benefit from them, right? If you agree with that, you’re gonna LUV this book review. PS – Sharing is one thing, but re-publishing my work in a different forum (print, broadcast or online) is another. NOBODY has the right …