Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz Recently, after a few incidents of anti-Semitic attacks, I came to a local shul (synagogue) during the day, only to find it locked. […]
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Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz When Yitro arrived in the desert to join the Jewish People, he criticized Moshe (Moses)’s handling of the court system and offered him […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz Why do the Jewish people use a lunar calendar while other nations use a solar one? And why is its use the very […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz The world is in shock over the wildfires raging in California, where lives have been lost and the destruction is nothing short of […]
Why Did God Inflict Disaster? In this week’s Torah reading, God commanded Moshe (Moses), time after time, to strike the land of Egypt with plagues, as a consequence for Pharaoh’s […]
A Red Shockwave As we write these lines, the USA, and in fact the entire civilized world, and in a way Klal Yisrael (the Jewish nation) in particular, are witnessing […]
A Frightening Judgement Look around you on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur as the powerful, frightening piyut (liturgical poem) of Unetaneh Tokef is sung during the Mussaf prayer. This awe-inspiring section depicts […]
Watch this unbelievable moment between the mayor of Chevron, whose son is currently held hostage in Gaza, and Rabbi Chaim Mintz, Oorah’s Founder and Spiritual Leader. Can’t view YouTube videos? […]
Extra Time to Plan Ahead An extra Adar has got some of us planning for Pesach even earlier. With a few extra weeks to get things done, we can perhaps […]
