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Rabbi Larry Rothwachs, a licensed social worker, serves as senior rabbi at Congregation Beth Aaron in Teaneck, director of Professional Rabbinics at RIETS, and is the founding rabbi of meromeishemesh.
Tens of thousands of joyful revelers gathered on Mount Meron Thursday night for the traditional Lag B’Omer celebration at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. The festive event was in full swing, ...
The most important aspect of successful investing is having a long-time horizon. While a 40-year-old still has a multi-decade time horizon to work and build their nest egg, starting to save 15 years ...
Our choices shape our perspective. Our perspective sets the context. And that context determines the meaning we assign to any experience.
Beyond the professional inequities, the Brandeis Center’s letter highlights a broader climate of exclusion and hostility toward Jews within Microsoft.
Prioritizing other people‘s needs can lead to burn out and neglecting your own emotional and physical well-being.
On Lag B’Omer, Har Meron is transformed into a massive sea of visitors from throughout the world. A sight of unimaginable magnitude. In fact, the tremendous volume of visitors who visit the gravesite ...
Throughout all of his writings, Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook stresses the necessity of learning the secrets of Torah at the time of Israel’s Redemption: “The revelation of the secrets of Torah ...
To lead the office, Mayor Adams appointed Moshe Davis as the first executive director of the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism.
As they transitioned between two high-intensity combat zones, the soldiers paused briefly to mark Lag B’Omer, drawing spiritual strength before returning to the battlefield.
G-d’s eternity stands in the sharpest possible contrast to our mortality. All that lives will one day die. All that is physical will one day erode and cease to be. Even the sun, and the universe ...
One who truly loves Hashem, loves everything He creates. By loving and showing respect to His creations, we, in essence, show respect to Hashem Himself.