Torah World
Thursday March 18, 2010 6:33 PM
[Letter below.] In light of the recent tumult regarding insect infestation in fish, Rav Shlomo Miller, rosh kollel of Kollel Avreichim of Toronto, head of the Bais Horaah of Lakewood, and one of the gedolei (more…)
Thursday March 18, 2010 6:07 PM
[Letter link below.] More than 120 million U.S. census forms began arriving this week in mailboxes around the country, in the government’s once-a-decade population count that will be used to divvy up (more…)
Thursday March 18, 2010 5:28 PM
Yidden across the globe are asked to daven for Rav Yisroel Elya Weintraub, renowned mashpiah and mekubal from Bnei Brak, who is in need of rachamei Shomayim. The name for Tehillim is Rav Refoel Yisroel (more…)
Thursday March 18, 2010 4:21 PM
[Video below.] Earlier this afternoon, Rav Yisroel Pinchos Bodner delivered a fascinating shiur on shiurim, measurements, for the Leil HaSeder of Pesach. The shiur took place in Lakewood, NJ, at Bais (more…)
Thursday March 18, 2010 3:04 PM
[Photos below.] Earlier this week, thousands of Vizhnitzer Chassidim gathered in Yerushalayim to mark 70 years of chinuch under the guidance of the Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak, Rav Moshe Yehoshua (more…)
Thursday March 18, 2010 1:46 PM
Yidden are asked to recite Tehillim for Rav Shlomo Brevda, who is in need of a refuah sheleimah. Rav Brevda is one of the most well-known maggidei shiur and darshanim who has delivered thousands of (more…)
Wednesday March 17, 2010 3:48 PM
It happened fifteen years ago, but Rav Mendel Silberberg remembers it as if it was yesterday. Eliyahu Bass, a bright and sincere Sinai Academy student, was making a siyum on his first masechtah. It was a (more…)
Wednesday March 17, 2010 10:15 AM
[Audio below.] This past Sunday morning, Sara Hurwitz - the woman whom Rabbi Avi Weiss wished to crown as a “Maharat” or “Rabba” - addressed the controversy surrounding her desire - which she (more…)
Tuesday March 16, 2010 9:00 AM
Today, Rosh Chodesh Nissan, the posek hador, Maran Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv shlit”a, is marking a milestone: his 100th birthday. Rav Elyashiv was joined last night by close family and talmidim for a small (more…)
Tuesday March 16, 2010 6:31 AM
Today, 1 Nissan, marks one year since the passing of Maran Hagaon Harav Elya Svei zt”l, the Philadelphia Rosh Yeshiva, who until he became ill several years before his petirah had led Klal Yisroel in the United (more…)