by Yitzchok Adlerstein · December 17, 2018
Nothing. Except that they don’t believe it. The anxieties and doubts that they harbor about themselves can turn into huge problems down the line. Those problems are explored, together with other issues facing second-generation...
by Avi Shafran · December 15, 2018
Enough decades have passed to allow some of us to recall biologist Paul R. Ehrlich’s 1968 bestseller “The Population Bomb,” in which the author, soberly analyzing relevant data, predicted worldwide famine within twenty years...
by Avrohom Gordimer · December 14, 2018
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...
by Yitzchok Adlerstein · December 13, 2018
[I could not find out the name of the author of this beautiful poem, but thought it more important to get it out while the wound is still fresh in all of us. It...
by Avi Shafran · December 9, 2018
An opinion piece I wrote about Chanukah was published by the New York Times last week. It can be read here.
Nothing. Except that they don’t believe it. The anxieties and doubts that they harbor about themselves can turn into huge problems down the line. Those problems are explored, together with other issues facing second-generation...
Enough decades have passed to allow some of us to recall biologist Paul R. Ehrlich’s 1968 bestseller “The Population Bomb,” in which the author, soberly analyzing relevant data, predicted worldwide famine within twenty years...
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...
[I could not find out the name of the author of this beautiful poem, but thought it more important to get it out while the wound is still fresh in all of us. It...
An opinion piece I wrote about Chanukah was published by the New York Times last week. It can be read here.
Few misuses of words anger us as much as our enemies calling us Nazis. Because we have kept alive the memory and the pain, we feel the enormity of the injustice of turning victim...
Now available for download, this is a talk I gave to a great group of singles here in Yerushalayim. It combines parts of the Maharal (Ner Mitzvah), the Bnei Yissoschor, and reminiscences of the...
“This new translation of Tehillim will change your life!” My friend in Johannesburg was exultant. I reacted with the enthusiasm of one who contemplated spending an hour looking over a list of new offerings...
I understand the justification for placing Louis Farrakhan and a company shunning business in the West Bank on the same spectrum, if far from each other. But no one should be puzzled by my...
Rabbi Shafran has a good point. The crux of the matter, indeed, is that the two of us, friendship aside, employ very different definitions of anti-Semitism. Rabbi Shafran prefers his definition, he tells us,...
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