Today is Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan. On this day, Jewish parents have the custom to recite Tefilat HaShlah. This prayer was composed by the Shelah Hakadosh to express the prayers […]
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An Oorah Holiday Guide Light Up Your Chanukah! While you’re enjoying the lights of your menorah and the delicious tastes of crispy hot latkes and jelly donuts, add something extra […]
Jewish Music Part 5 Part 1: What is Jewish Song? Part 2: Speaking of Choirs… Part 3: Jewish Music Stars Part 4: Our Very Own The plaintive, stirring Chasidic song […]
Jewish Music Part 4 Part 1: What is Jewish Song? Part 2: Speaking of Choirs… Part 3: Jewish Music Stars Speaking about Jewish music, we can’t forget Oorah’s contribution to […]
Every year on Tish’ah B’av, the day on which our Holy Temple was destroyed, we mourn the awful fate which has befallen our nation. Many of our woes can be […]
An Oorah Holiday Guide The three weeks that begin on Shiva Asar B’Tammuz (17th of Tammuz) and end on Tisha B’Av (the 9th of Av) are a period of mourning […]
Shavuos, the day on which we received the Torah, is celebrated with great joy every year. Besides the euphoria that Shavuos invokes, it is a day on which we ought […]
One of my earliest memories, from when I was perhaps five or six years old, is of my mother leading what was called, “Junior Congregation,” I think. It was basically […]
Recently, someone shared a copy of advice for wives which was published in a home economics book in 1950. It had things like, “Plan ahead to have a nice dinner […]
Why is it that many Orthodox Jews do not honorYom HaShoah? Don’t they care about the six million? Rabbi Chaim Mintz responds: Of course we mourn the six million. However, […]
