From the desk of Rabbi Simon Jacobson, director of the Meaningful Life Center: With the war in Israel and Gaza escalating and anti-Semitism rearing its ugly head, we are reminded in this week’s Torah portion of events that shaped our civilized world, helping us reclaim our human mandate, and wage war against those forces that wish to defile the dignity of our sacred lives, and destroy the fabric of our society and the values we cherish • Full Article

This week we are reading about the most important event in history: G-d Almighty gave His Torah to the Jews. It is the very foundation of existence; here was no event even vaguely comparable to it; several million people, (an entire nation!) actually saw and heard the Creator of the Universe say what He wants from each human being • Full Article

From the desk of Rabbi Nissim Lagziel, Mashpia in Oholei Torah: At the beginning of parshas Yisro, we read about Yisro’s visit to the desert. We know that Yisro took along Tzippora and her two sons so they would be reunited with Moshe after their long separation • Full Article

Enjoy a beautiful ma’amar of the Rebbe for Parshas Yisro, in a new Chassidus class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, on a ma’amar based on מתן תורה הוא שנמשך העצם שלמעלה מענין הגילויים, from Shabbos Yisro, 18 Shevat 5745 • Watch