Parshas Chukat
Rabbi Berel Wein The Torah reading of this week deals with a ritual in the Temple – that of the Parah Adumah – which is characterized as being a commandment beyond the ken of human understanding and rational interpretation. It remains a primary example of certain commandments that, at their very core, are not easily […]
Wednesday is the Day to Wed
Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow Mazal tov to all those who finished Maseches Yevamos. We began Maseches Kesuvos on Friday. I remember that a few minutes after I was engaged and we had a mock l’chayim ceremony, my future shvigger opened her notebook. She promptly started a lengthy discourse about the dates available for the wedding. She […]
Crook on the Hook
Allan Rolnick, CPA Fifty years ago, on June 17, a former CIA officer and four Cuban anti-communists carrying bugging devices found themselves handcuffed outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. What started out as “a third-rate burglary” morphed into “a cancer on the Presidency” and then a “long national […]