Author: Yitzchok Adlerstein

Most of our readers are spared the infamous December Dilemma. We don’t agonize about denying our children their time with Santa. The end of October, however, offers up a different dilemma, because fewer of...

Ought parents provide clear moral guidance and a set of definite values to their children, by orchestrating what they are exposed to and what not? John Edwards doesen’t think so. At the Dartmouth presidential...

Israeli media are reporting that there was another incident of violence against a woman for refusing to move to the back of the bus. I have no way of knowing whether the story is...

I don’t know, but I sure hope so. That way I can hype a new weekly shiur on a sefer very close to heart: Nesivos Shalom. I don’t fully understand why people don’t just...

It is remarkable that the staunch defender of middle of the road American Judaism, the prim and proper Hadassah Magazine, would do a positive interview with John Hagee (October, pg. 32; not yet online)....

Despite the post-Yom Kippur, pre-Sukkos euphoria which I hope is enveloping all our readers, last week’s thread on the Holocaust weighs heavily. I have often wondered whether our own community’s playing fast and loose...

Once again, official travel regulations are on the side of the observant traveler. Stephanie Stoltzfus, the Manager of the External Compliance Division in the Office of Civil Rights and Liberties at the Transportation Security...

It was an exercise in purely fanciful speculation, but it led to much productive discussion of what it means to be mamlich Hashem – to coronate G-d on Rosh Hashanah. I asked my guests...

My other favorite publication, Jewish Action, just released its fall issue. It contains a revisiting of the Codes controversy, in the form of a Sarah Shapiro interview with Harold Gans. (I’ve been trying to...

Not much competition, really. Eveybody wins. For many of us, no yom tov is properly observed without some immersion in the special works that lead to a deeper appreciation of the special quality of...