Rabbi Yisrael Reisman’s motza’ei Shabbos shiur on Navi is arguably the best-attended Torah lecture in the world. Begun in 1986 with a dozen men sitting around a table, today it is seen and heard worldwide, with countless participants either joining him live in Flatbush, or watching it on satellite hookups or web streams. The shiur [...]
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The day after Purim, my grandmother used to say, is erev Pesach. Guess what? It’s here. As we gear ourselves up to prepare for the upcoming Passover holiday, one of the more daunting items on our “to do” list is menu planning. This year the first seder falls on a Wednesday night – which means, [...]
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We like novels for their excitement and readability, and for the way we can get inside the characters’ thoughts and emotional lives. We enjoy biographies because learning about unusual and productive people can inspire us to greatness. And we read history books because it’s important to know where we came from and what has happened [...]
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Purim is indeed a time of plenty. Plenty of noise and fun, plenty of food and wine (remember: drink with care – and this year, especially, give plenty of matanos l’evyonim, gifts for the poor!). There’s more to the holiday plenty, though, than eating and drinking – there is a rich lode of scholarship and [...]
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It is hard to put a dollar and cents value on quality. Yet in today’s harsh economic environment, we look to get the highest possible value for the lowest possible cost. There are few things more valuable than wisdom, and nothing is worth more than Torah. For the next three weeks, ArtScroll offers its readers [...]
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We don’t need to see the graphs or read the financial news to know that times are hard. We just have to look at the face of a neighbor who’s been laid off. We hear of individuals struggling to put food on the table or venerable Torah institutions buckling under the weight of unpaid bills, [...]
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On erev Pesach this year, the Jewish People will have an opportunity to make a berachah that happens, not once a year, not even once a decade – but once every twenty-eight years. For a few short minutes, we will gaze up at the sky and see the sun in the same place, on the [...]
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The scene is repeated every Shabbos, hundreds of thousands of times: In grand architectural edifices and tiny storefront minyanim, in shtieblach and synagogues and shuls, Jews are praying and listening to the holy words of Torah – and they’re holding an ArtScroll Siddur and an ArtScroll Chumash in their hands. The words of the Torah [...]
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Imagine a NASA engineer who is also the perfect, patient teacher of tenth-grade algebra. Or a gourmet chef at a five-star restaurant, whose burgers on the grill are wildly popular at backyard barbeques. Now consider someone who really exists: a world-class psychiatrist who successfully treats difficult behavioral and personality disorders, who also instructs, inspires and, [...]
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In these tough financial times, here’s one unexpected, and effective, recession-buster: Crafting Jewish, ArtScroll’s beautifully-crafted (!), bestselling book on crafts. Children and adults alike find crafting a wonderful way to express their creativity, but it’s also a terrific, low-priced way to keep the kids entertained. With midwinter vacation drawing near and travel budgets shrinking, why [...]
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