The Horrifying Chillul Hashem in Bnei Brak and Why We Must Stop the Bleeding
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
On Sunday afternoon, images emerged from Bnei Brak that sent shockwaves throughout the Torah world and beyond. Two female IDF soldiers—who, according to mu...
The Mitzvah of Ahavas Yisrael Before Davening
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Every so often, big companies realize that things are not working so well and they need to retool. With all of the current anti-semitism perhaps it is time...
The Jew Who Invented the Science of Crime
On January 13, 2026, Alfred Blumstein passed away at the age of 95. Most people have never heard his name. But his fingerprints are on virtually every aspect of how America underst...
THE MILLERS GO TO LEVI SCHOOL
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
A Story of Mashiach, Music, and One Very Determined Little Sister
A halachic adventure teaching the laws of the Levi’im and the Shirah in the Beis Hamik...
A New Angle on Parshas Shekalim: Yearning for the Geulah
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
What follows is a new suggestion – a new angle on how we can look at Parshas Shekalim that will improve the lot of Klal Yisroel.
The Gemara in Shabbos (...
The PA’s Draft Constitution: A Document Built on a Lie And the Legal Response Israel Should Be Making
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Earlier this week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ordered the publication of a draft constitution for a Palestinian state. The PA’s official...
Rav Yerucham Levovitz zt”l— The Soul of the Mir
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Every so often, individuals emerge in Jewish history who, by dint of their personality and intellect, literally change the topography of Torah life. One su...
Keeping Our Children on the Derech: The Answer
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
It is the crisis that keeps mechanchim and parents awake at night. Every year, precious neshamos slip away from Yiddishkeit, leaving behind heartbroken fam...
The Great Social Experiment
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Tiffany’s sells one five piece sterling silver set of Bamboo flatware for $1420. Imagine, for a moment, that you just needed to purchase the smaller ...
Rabbi Chaim Shraga Feivel Frank zt”l – the Gvir Who 4 Yeshivos Owe Their Existence to
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Without This Man, There Would Be No BMG in Lakewood
Today, Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey, stands as the largest post-graduate Torah institutio...
Knesset Happenings Explained
by Shira Miller
In Israel, when the government passes its annual budget, it also passes a big companion law called the Arrangements Law. Th...
Who is the New Lakewood Mashgiach?
Rav Reuven Hechster – From Talmid Muvhak to Mashgiach of Two of the World’s Premier Yeshivos
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
There are moments in the history of the Torah world that ca...
I Am Har HaBayis Day 2
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Chapter Two: The Dawn Begins — Garments, Lotteries, and the First Stirrings of Avodah
One day, every one of us will be asked: Tzipisa l’yeshuah? Did you...
The Audacity of Naftali Bennett
an Op-Ed by Shira Miller
Naftali Bennett has a gift for dramatic rhetoric. On Sunday evening, the former Prime Minister launched a blistering attack on Benjamin Netanyahu, compa...
The Blood-Soaked History Luigi Mangione Wants us to Forget – An Oped
His double jeopardy defense was built on the bodies of murdered Black Americans.
(New York) Luigi Mangione is accused of disguising himself, traveling to Manhattan, lying in wai...
I am Har HaBayis
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Entry One — The Guards Who Honored Me
It is one of the first four questions that every yid is asked, l’achar meah v’esrin shana. Tzipisa l’yeshuah...
The Apology President Trump Should Issue
"Look, I'm going to say something I don't say very often. And that's okay to admit, because nobody's perfect. Nobody. Especially not me. Only God is perfect.
I messed up. It was m...
Klapping at Slach Lanu When No Tachanun is Said
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
It seems that some people are of the opinion that when it is a day that Tachanun is not recited then one does not klap the heart in the Slach Lanu bracha i...
Rav Nachum Zev Dessler zt”l on his yahrtzeit 18 Shvat: a True Mechanech
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
This Shabbos will be the 15th year since the passing of a model mechanech – someone who personified that remarkable and bold pioneerism that changed the fa...
Rav Yisroel Belsky zt”l on his yahrtzeit: Ten Years Since his Passing
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Ten years ago, Klal Yisroel lost an extraordinary Rosh Yeshiva, a world-class Posek, and a remarkable Tzaddik – Rav Yisroel Belsky, zichron tzaddik v’kados...