Immanuel Bernstein News Today

If we view our fellow Jews as foreign to us... then we have destroyed the basis for Matan Torah

The task of Rosh Hashanah is to crown HaKadosh Baruch Hu as King over us. And there is no king without a nation

I’d like to call your attention to an excellent work by Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein entitled, “Teshuvah: A Guide For The Mind And Heart During Elul, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur” …

From the blog of Chaim Ingram at The Times of Israel

Of the three major festivals on the Jewish religious calendar, Shavuot is the shortest, with a one-day observance in Israel and two days in the Diaspora. However, when we consider that this holiday …

The dangers of disunity to the fate of the Jewish People, and the power of unity

“Living well really is the best revenge”

For believing Jews, the current situation is easily recognizable for its resemblance to Purim

The drinking on Purim that renders bochurim both a danger to themselves and to those around them has too many enablers   My wife and I will once again flee our Jerusalem neighborhood this Purim for the calmer haven of Ramat Beit Shemesh. At some point, I realized that I have no wish to spend Purim where one cannot drive without fear of drunken young men jumping on the hood of one’s car. But I would not mention my holiday itinerary were it not for something that happened last year. We returne...

The two miracles of Chanukah were Hashem’s response to the Greek denial of a realm above nature     Chanukah falls at the darkest time of the year, the time when the nights are longest. And the twelve months since last Chanukah have certainly been dark ones for most of us. Yet just as the darkness of night better offsets the Chanukah lights and increases their glow, so too if we genuinely appreciated the meaning of those lights, they would have the power to dissipate much darkness in our li...