Author: Avrohom Gordimer

Here are two new articles of mine: Should Leah Forster Be Allowed to Perform in a Kosher Restaurant? Rabbi Cardozo: Your Views Would Destroy Judaism  

Every year, we read articles portraying Chanukah as something that it is not. This year is no different, as such an article was prominently posted by Times of Israel as a featured blogpost. Here...

The Rabbanut just released its list of approved batei din in the Diaspora for geirus. The list has some quite obsolete data and some other perhaps unexpected inclusions, but its issuance is an overall...

Rabbi Seth Farber, director of the ITIM organization, has been an outspoken, long-term critic of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate. Please click here to read my response to Rabbi Farber’s new critique of Rabbi David...

Should accused Pittsburgh murderer Robert Bowers be given the death penalty if convicted? Representatives of liberal Jewry have basically responded with a resounding “No”. In a new Washington Post article, two leading Conservative rabbis and...

Here are links to a few recent articles I posted on the Times of Israel blog, in case they might be of interest: Dr. Friedman, Please Don’t Try to Silence the Rabbis or Anyone...

Here are three recent articles, which may be of interest: Rabbi Leiter: The Facts Speak for Themselves Unraveling the Mystery of the Ma’aravis Yorkers – But Are They Kosher?  (The original print version is...

The recent Hamodia article about young people who grew up as Modern Orthodox (or, to be more precise, who grew up primarily as “MO Lite”) is very worthwhile reading. It should compel Modern Orthodox...

Here are a few new articles of mine that were were recently posted, respectively, on Times of Israel and Arutz Sheva: Ethiopians and Wine: Not so Fast, Rabbi Cardozo Rabbis Weiss’and Angel’s accusations against...

(This article first appeared in Arutz Sheva.) Jonathan Neumann’s To Heal the World? is nothing short of a lethal indictment – actually a conviction – of the leadership of liberal Judaism, documenting the gross...