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Professor Oscar Mohl writes in The Jewish Press (link): Grief is a universal experience. But mourning, which is the religious and cultural expression of that grief, reflects the specific community’s values and world· view....

Josh Lambert of the Tablet Magazine writes: The incongruity of Tisha B’Av—a day of mourning during a period otherwise reserved by Americans for pool parties and cookouts—can make it difficult to attain a properly...

Rabbi Harry Maryles of the Emes Ve-Emunah blog writes: This brings me to a new publication by the OU Press: Koren Mesorat HaRav Kinot. This beautifully bound Kinos is a new translation of the...

Alan Jay Gerber of The Jewish Star writes: Thus, we note this week the elegant and sophistication of a new edition of the Kinot published this year. Titled, “The Koren Mesorat Harav Kinot” [Orthodox...

Rabbi Shlomo Brody, online editor of Tradition, review the Koren Mesorat HaRav Kinot: The hottest new publication in the Orthodox book world (I admit we’re not exactly talking about a NYTimes best seller, but...

When Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Wednesday, a day after his meeting with President Obama in the White House, he received a special and...

Below is a picture of the Koren Kinot Mesorat HaRav in Judaica Plus in Cedarhurst.

This is a slideshow of R. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb speaking at the OU Israel Center about translating the Kinot into English: link

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Questions and answers about the weekly parsha that will open up the text with questions and various approaches. The material is excerpted from Rabbi Shmuel Goldin’s new book Unlocking the Torah Text: An In-Depth...