by Special to Cross-Currents · January 14, 2019
Michael J. Broyde We’re not lacking in opinions about the New York State Education Departments’ new regulations concerning private schools and yeshivas. To move to the practical requires some horse-sense about likely outcomes. What...
by Avi Shafran · January 12, 2019
James D. Watson, the 90-year-old Nobel laureate co-discoverer of DNA’s structure, is recovering from a car accident and, at least in person, currently out of the public eye. But he is very much in...
by Avi Shafran · January 5, 2019
When my family lived in Providence, Rhode Island back in the 1980’s and early ‘90s, I heard rumors that some of the city’s residents of Cape Verdean ancestry had a strange custom. Friday afternoons,...
by Yaakov Menken · January 3, 2019
by RYM and Jeff Ballabon. As alumni of both elite Ivy-League Universities and revered yeshivos, we know that the scholarship, energy and forward-looking motion within Judaism today arises primarily from those who sacrifice an advanced formal secular curriculum in favor of additional Torah study.
by Yitzchok Adlerstein · January 2, 2019
A recent comment by one of our readers registered a louder sound to my early-warning system than a stampede through an active minefield. Since the usual first responders did not rush to the scene...
Michael J. Broyde We’re not lacking in opinions about the New York State Education Departments’ new regulations concerning private schools and yeshivas. To move to the practical requires some horse-sense about likely outcomes. What...
James D. Watson, the 90-year-old Nobel laureate co-discoverer of DNA’s structure, is recovering from a car accident and, at least in person, currently out of the public eye. But he is very much in...
When my family lived in Providence, Rhode Island back in the 1980’s and early ‘90s, I heard rumors that some of the city’s residents of Cape Verdean ancestry had a strange custom. Friday afternoons,...
by RYM and Jeff Ballabon. As alumni of both elite Ivy-League Universities and revered yeshivos, we know that the scholarship, energy and forward-looking motion within Judaism today arises primarily from those who sacrifice an advanced formal secular curriculum in favor of additional Torah study.
A recent comment by one of our readers registered a louder sound to my early-warning system than a stampede through an active minefield. Since the usual first responders did not rush to the scene...
I was recently sent this very brief video (please open the link, scroll down and watch the video), which depicts the often ugly and irreversible ramifications of children not getting adequate attention from their parents....
The weathered ex-soldier’s face on the screen was accompanied by the message: “At least 50,000 homeless veterans are starving, dying in the streets, but liberals want to invite 620,000 refugees and settle them among...
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
A young Joseph B. Soloveitchik used to travel to Vilna to talk in learning with R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski. On one such visit, the future Rav Soloveitchik asked the gadol hador some halachic questions...
Even before the Pittsburgh Massacre, Damon Joseph, 21, who lives in a suburb of Toledo, Ohio, hoped to go on a “virtual jihad.” The murders of 11 Jews at the end of October in...
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