by Alex Orlov | May 29, 2014 | Review
Right on Time is a contemporary mussar sefer focusing on the importance of punctuality, primarily as it concerns being on time for prayer services and Torah classes. There are “no holds barred” in this easy to read five chapter volume. Culled from both Scripture...
by Alex Orlov | Dec 4, 2013 | Review
Since my mother’s death, my jewelry has suffered. One of my very favorite, and relatively new, earrings disappeared during the Shabbat of the shiva. I suddenly realized that it wasn’t on my ear, and I never found it. Then two weeks ago, again on Shabbat I...
by Alex Orlov | Dec 4, 2013 | Review
Imagine you are walking down a dark road. It’s pitch black outside and you can’t see a thing. You grope along a fence along the side of the road so as not to trip over whatever may be there in front of you. All of a sudden, you hear the noise of a car from behind, and...
by Alex Orlov | Dec 4, 2013 | Review
Soon after I received The Elephant in the Room: Torah, Wisdom, and Inspiration for Life by Ron Yitzchok Eisenman Mosaica Press, a friend was over and noticed it. “I love his stuff. I look forward to his daily emails. Haven’t I sent them to you?” I...
by Alex Orlov | Aug 25, 2013 | Review
Since my mother’s death, my jewelry has suffered. One of my very favorite, and relatively new, earrings disappeared during the Shabbat of the shiva. I suddenly realized that it wasn’t on my ear, and I never found it. Then two weeks ago, again on Shabbat I...
by Alex Orlov | Aug 7, 2013 | Review
Rabbi Avrohom Reit has just released his latest work: Zeh Kaporosi: The Custom of Kaporos. The author, a noted talmid chacham and close confidant of Rav Dovid Feinstein, might just be the first person to compile a work that deals exclusively with the enigmatic custom...
by Alex Orlov | Aug 4, 2013 | Review
Noa’s Strength is a beautiful story written by Noa’s husband, Boruch Sirisky. He brings the readers on Noa’s journey through good time and hard times. The book is designed to show the struggle and bring out the inspiration. Judging the Book by its...
by Alex Orlov | Aug 4, 2013 | Review
Blow your mind bigger and better as you improve upon preconceived ideas about the High Holidays. This slim paperback holds 87 pages full of wisdom, insight, and keys to personal improvement! Far from talk-show fodder about Kabbalah, this is a thinking Jews’ approach...
by Alex Orlov | Aug 4, 2013 | Review
My Rosh Hashana experience this year was greatly enhanced by having Rabbi Yaacov Haber’s latest book at hand, The First Ten Days. The First Ten Days is a unique and beautiful book. Pockets sized, with striking graphics – the book is a compact combination of esoteric...
by Alex Orlov | Aug 4, 2013 | Review
The Rebbi You Wish You Had Yonoson Rosenblum | Tuesday, July 30, 2013 We are already well into summer, when many of us have more free time for reading than during the year. To those whose summer reading tastes do not run to escapist page-turners about shark attacks or...
by Alex Orlov | Jul 31, 2013 | Review
A Financial Guide to Aliyah and Life in Israel is a crystal-clear, practical guide to managing one’s finances while living in Israel. Written especially to explain Israeli banks, taxes, insurance, real estate market, and much more for anyone who wishes to become...
by Alex Orlov | Jul 31, 2013 | Review
Former Winnipegger Baruch (Brent) Labinsky’s inspiration to write his latest book “A Financial Guide to Aliyah and Life in Israel” came from wanting to help make the transition for new olim smoother and greatly improve their odds of making a successful aliyah. “Using...
by Alex Orlov | Jul 31, 2013 | Review
So you’re thinking of making aliyah. But do you know what you are signing up for? A fair number of Jewish North Americans who take that leap of faith that is aliyah soon limp back home in frustration. Brent (Baruch) Labinsky is confident that his new book, “A...
by Alex Orlov | Jul 31, 2013 | Review
Taxation, banking, insurance, pensions and so on are not the most romantic aspects of aliyah. There will be those who blithely ignore such matters, carried away by idealistic motivation. Others might find the prospect of dealing with a financial system both...
by Alex Orlov | Jul 31, 2013 | Review
As a person who considers himself somewhat obsessed with Aliyah (literally “ascending”, used to describe moving to Israel, ed.) and all issues related to living in the Land of Israel, I had to make it my business to read the new book, “A Financial Guide to Aliyah and...
by Alex Orlov | Jul 31, 2013 | Review
A new book really hits home with advice, information and humor. You can’t make it in Israel if you can’t laugh – and preferably, at yourself. As a person who considers himself somewhat obsessed with Aliyah (literally “ascending”, used to...
by Alex Orlov | Jul 30, 2013 | Review
The Talmud is a sea, a sea into which one can dive or be drowned in or simply observe carefully from the shore. And this is not any sea, but one of the most opaque seas. Indeed, one definitely should be accompanied in the sea of Talmud. This is the purpose of this...
by Alex Orlov | Jul 30, 2013 | Review
The Talmud is often likened to a vast sea. With nearly 6,000 folio pages, over two million words, and the opinions of some two thousand scholars, it is intimidating for its sheer magnitude. Complicating matters, its myriad legal, philosophical, ethical and historical...
