Contemporary society does an absolutely awful job at communicating. Despite possession of the most advanced communication tools ever known, modern man would earn an F in Interpersonal Communication 1.0, were there to be such a course...
Judaism: On the Torah article found in Rabbi Eitam’s Hy”d computer Palestinian suspected of killing Israeli mother detained – “Israel says the violence is the result of a Palestinian campaign of lies and incitement. The...
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The Other Wailing Wall, The Palestinian One – The perspective of this article does not sit well with me, and, I am sure, with most Orthodox Jews. But it is important to be aware of...
Why can’t a yeshiva education be more utilitarian? After years of learning, with intense focus on abstract conceptualization and only minor focus on practical Halacha, talmidim emerge with apparently quite little to show. They have...
Will Orthodox Israelis’ revolt against the chief rabbinate spur a domino effect? – Frightening efforts to “take down the Chief Rabbinate”, orchestrated by a familiar cast of characters, many of whom have close ties with...
Rabbi Yosef Weiss z”tl Divrei Hesped at RIETS for Rav Yosef Weiss zt’l Articles and Shiurim of Rav Weiss zt”l The New ‘Orthodox Rabbinic Statement on Christianity’ – An Analysis (Aside from the statement seeming...
The religious Left’s war against normative Orthodox Judaism – It turns out that many of the most vocal opponents of the new RCA resolution, who condemned and disparaged the RCA and the resolution in...
Tisha B’Av is the most ideologically challenging day on the Jewish calendar for secular Zionists (and even for some religious Zionists). Messages of the Jewish People being in a current state of Galus (Exile), imagery of...
I was asked by Jewish Action to expand upon and flesh out the issues in my Cross-Currents article about rabbinic dignity, for a Jewish action article on the subject; the Jewish Action article was just published, accompanied by...
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