It’s time to put your Chametz into the history. The night before Passover demands Chametz to be nowhere near you. We launch a genuine “search and destroy” mission. The enemy is Chametz (leavened products that are forbidden to be consumed during Passover), or any kind of a trace of it. For the time of this holiday [...]

The Seder Night: Inspiring and Involving our Children – Bringing Torah to Life: Deepening our Children’s Jewish Experience: In this Torah shiur on chinuch habanim (children’s education), Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller talks about how to maximize the educational experience for our children on the first night of Pesach, at the Seder. This Torah class is available [...]

The Passover time is a great family time. More importantly, it is the time to explore Jewish history and a chance to find similarities to contemporary world’s hardships. “Creating Lively Passover Seders: A Sourcebook of Engaging Tales, Texts & Activities” the book by David Arnow constitutes an outstanding resource for any seder leader. Your experience, [...]

Metzora - Leviticus 14:1-15:33  - last week’s Parshah described the signs of the metzora (“leper”) — a person afflicted by a spiritual malady which places him or her in a state of ritual impurity. This week’s Torah reading begins by detailing how the recovered metzora is purified by the Kohen (priest) with a special procedure involving [...]

There are loads of apps out there that help you to stay connected with the world while travelling. But what happens when you feel like reading in your native language? Wizcom’s Quicktionary TS Premium may be worth to have a look at. Wizcom Technologies Ltd. was founded In 1995 in Israel. This telecommunication company took [...]

The hills of Beit El, Israel. Winter of 1977.  A group of senior students from Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, in Jerusalem, comes together to establish there a Yeshiva and the whole community.  As Jacob dreamt in Beit El:   “Behold the ladder is positioned on the ground, and its head reaches the heavens.” The Beit El [...]

There’s one thing that comes to your mind when thinking about the time of  Pesach. The thing is sheer craziness! The maddest few weeks of the year. The thorough cleaning, shopping, Seder planning all these usually starts for several weeks prior to the “night different from all other nights“.  And what’s the story with all [...]

Passover: The Journey to Freedom is yet another app from StoryChimes. The story tells us of the Jewish Exodus from Egypt, the 10 plagues sent by G-d onto Egyptians before the Pharaoh agreed to set his Israelite slaves free,  Jews’ great rush while leaving Egypt, the rush so enormous that they didn’t even have time [...]

Parshat HaChodesh (G-d) showed Moshe a new moon and said to him, “When the moon renews itself, that will be a new month for you.” – Rashi Ex 12:2 Did you hear about the trial kosher restaurant NASA set up on the moon? It closed after a month – the food was excellent, but there [...]

You can find loads of match-3 puzzle games in the App Store. Jewish Stuff Block Game HD Lite is the first one where there are symbols relating to Judaism. The game is simple as any other game of this type. The task of the player is to match three identical symbols in column or in a [...]

Money Matters - Living with Integrity - Dayan Shlomo Cohen, author of the highly acclaimed series on Jewish Monetary Law, Pure Money, begins a fascinating journey through the foundations and practical applications of ethical financial behavior. Dayan Shlomo Cohen, originally from London, England, spent many years learning in Yeshivat Hanegev in Netivot, followed by close to a [...]

TasteePic is a visual search engine for local food, currently serving the Seattle area. Search by viewing images of food in your city and neighborhood. See high quality pictures of  food from our visual menus, as well as pictures of restaurant’s interior and exterior. Get detailed information about restaurants, menu items and special deals. Also, [...]

If you are a student of Biblical Hebrew this is the app you need. With this app you can brush up on your grammar. There are loads of great English to Hebrew exercises there. Many grammatical sources (such Weingreen’s Practical Grammar for Biblical Hebrew) were used to create exercises as advantageous as possible and to [...]

Tazri - Leviticus 12:1-13:59 – The Parshah of  Tazria continues the discussion of the laws of  Tumahv’Taharah, ritual impurity and purity. A woman giving birth should undergo a process of purification, which includes immersing in a mikvah (a naturally gathered pool of water) and bringing offerings to the Holy Temple. All male infants are to be [...]

Feel like flipping some eggs? There’s an app for that as well. The app developers don’t stop to surprise us. There is a new app on the market called iPan: Flip Master. It is a non-stop surprise and loads-of-fun game. The motor skill are taken to the very extreme. The surprise level is over the [...]