Here’s a super-quick peek at our new titles: Enjoy absorbing and inspiring biographies? This Chanukah season we’ve got two for you: Rav Kulefsky: The beloved American-born rebbi whose geshmak for Torah lit the fire in thousands, by Rabbi Yechiel … Continue reading
AS: Your new book focuses on amazing stories showing the power of hafrashas challah, told by Nava Ben Moshe, who has touched the lives of literally thousands through her kiruv and especially through her challah bakes. You’re a man and, … Continue reading
AS: First things first — Can you tell us a little about Shaar HeBechinah? What exactly is “bechinah”? RDK: Bechinah means to observe, reflect, and look into. It shares a root with the “bechinah” that students take in yeshivah, designed … Continue reading
He didn’t come from the little town of Mir. Or from Vilna, Baranovitch, or Radin. He didn’t even come from Brooklyn! Yet as he grew up in Depression-era St. Louis, a city far from any Torah center, Yaakov Moshe Kulefsky, … Continue reading
A candid interview with the creators of Between Carpools and the latest cookbook sensation, Dinner Done! With preorders already breaking sales records, everyone, it seems, is talking about Dinner Done, the fantabulous (no other word describes it!) soon-to-be-released cookbook, created … Continue reading
AS: You’ve been in chinuch for decades, as a rebbe and a menahel, as well as in teacher training. Did you use some of your chinuch techniques in The Jaffa Family Edition: The Weekly Parashah? RNZ: Many, many techniques. The … Continue reading
AS: It’s been six years since Living Emunah was first published — and since then you’ve sold more than 200,000 copies in the series, in four languages. Amazing! Why do you think the Living Emunah books have been so spectacularly … Continue reading
Rav Chaim Soloveichik once saw his son, Yitzchak Zev, the future Brisker Rav, when he was a young boy, studying Chovos HaLevavos with intense effort. R’ Chaim said to him, with satisfaction: “Learn, learn. Chovos HaLevavos is the Shulchan Aruch … Continue reading
AS: Beis HaLevi on Bitachon has an interesting history. Can you tell us about the manuscript and how it came to be published? RDS: As Rosh Yeshivah of Volozhin, founder of the Brisk dynasty, and author of Beis HaLevi al … Continue reading
It’s going to be a very different Rosh Hashanah this year. For some of us, in places where Covid-19 is raging, we may be davening in parking lots, backyards, or porches, locked out of our beloved shuls. Even for those … Continue reading
