A Time for Planting
Rabbi Zvi Teichman The Torah introduces the command of Orlah, which prohibits one from partaking of fruits that grow on newly planted trees for the first three years from its planting. The Midrash states that the very planting of trees is a fulfillment of the command to emulate the attributes of G-d and cleave to […]
Girls Chesed League Baltimore Kicks Off the 2024 Season
The Girls Chesed League is excited to fill the Baltimore community with another season of chesed! Comprised of 11 teams representing 4 community schools (Bais Yaakov, Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School , Bnos Yisroel, and Ohr Chadash Academy ) 70 Middle School girls have committed to performing acts of chesed over the course of 6 weeks. We got together […]
OCA Rebbe Selected for Prestigious Award in Jewish Education
Mazal Tov to Rabbi Gershon Riselsheimer, Ohr Chadash Academy (OCA)’s Middle SchoolRebbe and 6th Grade Advisor for receiving the Sam Kahan Distinguished Educator forExcellence in Jewish Education award. The Sam Kahan Distinguished Educator awardperpetuates Sam Kahan’s legacy of personal commitment to Jewish education and tostrengthening Baltimore’s Jewish educational institutions. The recipient is a master Jewisheducator […]
Baltimore: Orah v’Simcha: A Unique Shidduch Initiative
Nowadays, there is a great awareness of the need to help others find their proper zivugim, and there are many varied shidduch initiatives toward that goal. Shidduchim are difficult enough for the typical population, but what about someone who is not typical, in some way? How can we help him/her find a shidduch as well? […]
Golfing Around
Allan Rolnick, CPA Hank Aaron once said, “It tookme seventeen years to get3,000 hits in baseball. It tookme one afternoon on the golf course.”Remarkably, millions of Americans stillmanage to love it. They’ll pick out theirloudest pants or skirts, head for thecourse, fire up their carts, and whack alittle white ball across a couple hundredacres of […]
Parshas Kedoshim
Rabbi Berel Wein The Torah’s definition of holinessand sanctity, of dignity of self andothers, of respect to one’s body andthat of others, is in the ability to channeland control one’s physical desires. The To-rah explicitly does not condone celibacynor does it demand from human beingsany degree of self-mortification or mas-ochism. It does most certainly demandfrom […]