This week I’m going to do something different. I’m going take two questions that were submitted separately and combine them into a single post because (a) they’re related a… Read More

Weakness of the Mind | laughter is good for the soul | prayer for Shavuot by breslevmeir Yeshiva in jerusalem. What people find is hard to pray or to le-hisboided with excitement and livelin… Read More

Illuminations #36 a publication by COLlive.com and DollarDaily.org: Rabbi Yossi and Mariashi Groner, relate tales and moments from Shlichus at Chabad of Charlotte, North Carolina. Full Sto… Read More

The post The Taste of the Garden of Eden appeared first on Story Tour. Tam and Chacham were old friends and would frequently travel together to perform various mitzvos and to collect tzedaka… Read More

The post A King’s Wisdom for a Year appeared first on Story Tour. The people of a certain land had an unusual custom, Every year they would go out to the main road which led to their c… Read More

The post Holy Challah – a Story, Some Prayers and a Recipe appeared first on Story Tour. Every Shabbos and Yom Tov (holiday), except Pesach (Passover), Jewish women prepare and bake ch… Read More

The post Business, Time and Faith appeared first on Story Tour. The son of a wealthy merchant decided that he would like to enter the business world to earn his own way. He went to his fathe… Read More

Dear Jew in the City- I know how to solve the Israeli/Palestinian crisis – make Israel a 51st state of the United States. Let them leave behind that land to the Palestinians and we&rsq… Read More

Dear Jew in the City- Does Judaism believe that marriages should have romance? Thank you, Olivia Dear Olivia- My wife and I have a friend we’ve known for about three decades. While she… Read More

While I normally love logging onto my phone each morning to see what’s happening in the world, I’ve dreaded checking the news over the last week due to the Coronavirus protests h… Read More

Dear JITC- We see people who insisted on davening with a minyan now catching and spreading this virus. What Jewish laws are people breaking when they act like this in these challenging times… Read More

Dear JITC, I grew up in a secular Jewish home, and converted to Orthodox Judaism in my twenties (I converted because my mother wasn’t Jewish, only my father). Initially I was so gung-h… Read More

Hi JITC- The idea that there’s a halacha that we don’t have to return lost money to a non-Jew has always bothered me. Maybe I could see it making sense if we are in a society whe… Read More