Rav Soloveitchik zt”l on Love and Attachment to Torah
This clip has been making the rounds, and Cross-Currents readers will surely appreciate it: Let us take its words to heart and disseminate this important lesson.
This clip has been making the rounds, and Cross-Currents readers will surely appreciate it: Let us take its words to heart and disseminate this important lesson.
“Modern Orthodoxy is in trouble… Where is Modern Orthodoxy headed?… Is Modern Orthodoxy going to split?“ These questions, prompted by the new Nishma Research study entitled The Successes, Challenges, and Future of American Modern Orthodoxy and by...
In what is surely for many readers an eye-opening article, entitled It Ain’t Necessarily So: These Orthodox Jews Are Challenging Commonly Held Beliefs About the Torah, Haaretz’ Judy Maltz takes a close look at the...
Although the Orthodox community is the quickest growing and most Jewishly engaged segment of our people, the volume of data on Orthodox communal norms is probably the sparsest. Thanks to Nishma Research, this is...
Yesterday, various LGBTQ groups marched against Yeshiva University, arguing that the school and its administration need to be more welcoming and open to LGBTQ students and gay concerns and interests. Included in the demands...
In the absence of the authority to change the law (Halacha), I have no choice but to choose against (following) it. In a clash between humanity and halakha, opt for humanity, and have enough...
With the exception of replying to a few Times of Israel blog articles, I have not written much lately about the issues of the day. The main reason for this is total lack of...
In Women in tents (and maybe in pictures), Mrs. Sarah C. Rudolph critiques my recent blog post reply to Mrs. Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll’s The Rotten State of Orthodoxy. Here is my response to Mrs....
I was a bit surprised to read an Orthodox doctor’s assessment and recommendation for the Orthodox community regarding vaccinations, in Times of Israel. Here is my response, posted in Times of Israel as well....
Shoshana Keats Jaskoll’s Times of Israel blog post, The rotten state of Orthodoxy, has gone viral. I felt that it really demanded a response, and here it is. As with other cross-posted articles, all...
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