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"No Segulah Like the Torah": Rabbi Reuven Zakai on the Most Proven Way to Secure Salvation

When my father wanted to convince me to eat, he would show me shapes of an elephant and a lion formed in a slice of cut bread. True, I was once small and convinced. But I've grown since. And I've come to understand that Judaism is a much more intelligent and wise affair than a collection of faces and bizarre imaginations.

Has the world changed overnight? Have we forgotten the age-old teaching "It is known that Esau hates Jacob"?

There's no such thing as a secular Jew, simply none. This story, which happened two summers ago at Elbaz's minimarket in Ein Yaakov, proves it.

When a reluctant government official heard Sephardic children singing “Shir HaShirim,” he broke down in tears and gave the green light for a school system that would change tens of thousands of lives