Regulator Concludes Investigation into 4 Charities as Class Inquiry Continues
The Charity Commission Has Removed Four Charities from an Ongoing Statutory Class Inquiry into 105 Charities
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Parashat Vaetchanan
The potent power of prayer, especially when praying for our children, plus the MK whose wife prayed that her children be like the Chazon...
Tisha Be’av this Year
Today, we observe the public fast day of Tisha Be’av. Tisha Be’av this Year Greetings on Tisha Be’av One may not greet others (especially...
Secretary Rubio’s Meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan. The Secretary and King Abdullah discussed bilateral and...
The Three-Day Purim
Yesterday, we explained how most places around the world would celebrate Purim tomorrow, Friday, the 14th of Adar. On the other hand, in...
The Mitzvah of the Purim Feast- Purim on Friday
Holding the Purim Feast at Night The holiday of Purim is different than all other holidays we celebrate in that whereas regarding other...
Remember
by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Rabbi Jeremy Rosen The Shabbat before Purim is always called Shabbat Zachor . The Shabbat to remember. Its origin...
The Jews: An Indigenous People
The Jews: An Indigenous People In The Jews: An Indigenous People , the final instalment of his seminal Jewish Pride trilogy, Ben M....
The Significance of Tu Bishvat
The Significance of Tu Bishvat The Fifteenth of Shevat or Tu Bishvat is the Rosh Hashanah for trees (Rosh Hashanah 2a). Most people...
Parashat Shemot
Emulating Moshe Rabbeinu’s primary virtues of Mercy and Compassion for all Creatures, and how Maran Rabbeinu Ovadia Yosef’s ztvk”l...
The Victory of the Hashmonaim
A historical account of the Chanukah miracle is recorded in Megillat Antiochus quoted by the Siddur Bet Oved (page 165) and Sefer...
Chanukah Candles in a High Building
Chanukah Candles in a High Building Chanukah candles should preferably be placed in a place where they will be visible to the public in...
Simchat Torah
The Rambam (end of Chapter 8 of Hilchot Lulav) states: “Even though it is a Mitzvah to rejoice on all the festivals, there was an...
The Festival of Sucot
From Serious to Joy by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen There is a line in the Book of Psalms that reads “Rejoice in trembling” (Psalms 2:11) that...
Rosh Hashanah
From a discourse delivered by Maran Rabbeinu Ovadia Yosef zt”l compiled by his grandson, Harav Yaakov Sasson Shlit”a We are about to...
One Should Constantly View Himself as Half Innocent and Half Guilty
Our Sages (Kiddushin 40b) teach us that one should always view himself as half innocent and half guilty. If one performs one Mitzvah, one...
Atonement for Sin, Torah Study, and Sinners in Our Generation
In the previous Halacha we have discussed four varying levels of sin. We have also pointed out that there are some sins for which one...
Parashat Vaetchanan
Reward and punishment, and creating spiritual garments to wear in the World to Come (From the teachings of Maran Rabbeinu Ovadia Yosef...
The Laws of Motza’ei Tisha Be’av and the Tenth of Av
Following halachic nightfall on Tisha Be’av which is approximately twenty minutes after sunset (somewhat later in the United States), one...
Shabbat Devarim
Deuteronomy 1-3:23 - What’s in a Name? by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen Why do we call this, the fifth book of the Torah, that we start this...
The “Three Weeks”
Today is the public fast day of the Seventeenth of Tammuz. We fast in order to rouse ourselves to repent and atone for our sins, which...
Holocaust Remembrance Day
(Based on the Sermons of Maran Rabbeinu Ovadia Yosef zt”lCompiled by his Grandson, Hagaon Harav Yaakov Sasson Shlit”a) During the Omer...
What is this Service to You?
Today is Erev Pesach. The latest time for burning Chametz this year (5784) in Jerusalem is at approximately 11:07 AM and in the New York...
Parashat Tzav, Parashat Parah
The Altar and its fire are indicative of the motivation required to engage in Torah study A ma’amar from HaRav Yaakov Sasson Shlit”a,...
Free Speech
by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen In my youth, I always regarded free, reasoned, civilized speech to be one of the most important and positive...
Parashat Vayera
Akedat Yitzchak, why was Avraham only rewarded after he offered the ram and how may we apply this lesson to ourselves? From HaGaon Rav...
The Most Awesome Day of the Year
An excerpt from a discourse delivered by Maran zt”l in the Chazon Ovadia Synagogue in Rechavia, Jerusalem on the night of Yom Kippur It...
Repentance, Prayer, and Charity
Our Sages taught that sometimes, although there may be a harsh decree hovering over an individual, “Repentance, prayer, and charity...
The Days of Mercy - When Maran zt”l Stood Guard
Maran Rabbeinu Ovadia Yosef zt”l writes (quoted in Maor Yisrael- Derashot, Derash 2 on the Month of Elul) that Hashem bestowed a great...
