Dovid Zaklikowski

Ever wondered why the ark in your synagogue has two coverings – a door and a curtain?

The word chumash is derived from the Hebrew word chomesh, which means a fifth.

It was nice eating at your house this past Shabbat. But I noticed that your walls are covered with bookshelves. Why do you have so many books?

There is a chain smoker who sits near me in the new office. According to Jewish law, am I allowed to ask him to stop smoking?

Two previously unpublished letters between the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, and two famed Jewish legal authorities were recently released by the Chabad-Lubavitch publishing arm.

I don’t know what will happen in 2012 but I do know that the world will not end.

One would think the best place to keep an ambulance would be in an indoor parking garage. Keeping it in a warm place, protected from the elements, would prevent the vehicle from needing to be warmed up and save time in an emergency.

You needn’t look far for evidence of great rifts in Israeli society, fractures whose beginnings stretch back generations.

Debate raged in a small New Jersey town. It was 1980 and a large Chanukah menorah had been erected in the garden of the court house in Hackensack, New Jersey. The menorah attracted Jews and heightened the holiday awareness and celebration in the area. By ...

Dear Rabbi, The story is told in Genesis of Abraham’s faithful servant Eliezer’s search for a wife for Isaac. We read his prayer on approaching the city where he is to find her (24:13-14): Behold, I am standing by the water fountain, and the daughters of ...