Rav Aharon Lichtenstein zt”l
By Hillel Goldberg Last Monday morning at the close of davening I received a call from my son, in tears, who told me that Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein had passed away. I told my son...
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Children Surviving Divorce
by David Mandel Polio, Tuberculosis, Cancer – each word elicits stark images of masses yearning for a better day. And for each, better days would come. Sanitariums closed in the early 20th Century, Iron...
Same Sex Marriage, Polygamy and Sharia Law: Some Thoughts
By Michael J. Broyde The first step to planning for the future is predicting the likely challenges: Same sex marriage is here, allowing religiously based discrimination is proposed as part of the solution and...
You Can Make a Difference!
by Rabbi Pesach Lerner It is common knowledge that in Israel today, there is an ongoing battle for the definition and future of Judaism in the Jewish state. Will Torah standards be preserved, and...
Learning from our Past, Building our Future (Part 2):
How Jewish History teaches us to create a positive community for tomorrow by Leslie Ginsparg Klein Generations of Jews have grappled with the same issues that face our Jewish community today. Their experiences provide...
Connectedness, Neo-Chassidus and The Woman’s Challenge
By Alexandra Fleksher The Spring 2012 edition of Klal Perspectives addressed the rising concern that Orthodox Jews are feeling a disconnect to G-d, the Torah and the Jewish people. The topic has taken center...
Dovid Winiarz – My Brother, My Keeper
By Shmuel Winiarz It hurts. Deeply. The initial blinding shock has passed, but as the sheloshim approaches, my mind inevitably wanders to thinking about my brother Dovid. I internally reflect on his life story...
Learning from our Past, Building our Future
How Jewish History teaches us to create a positive community for tomorrow Part I by Leslie Ginsparg Klein There is a story told about a Bais Yaakov girl in Poland in the 1930s. She...
R Dovid Winiarz z’l
by Meir Goldberg After the holocaust, the broken survivors of the Nazi concentration camps were gathered and provided for in DP (Displaced Persons) camps. The Klausenberger Rebbe Zt’l acted as both a father and...
Growing Older, in Verse
By Yossi Huttler [Editor’s Note: By now, Rabbi Yossi Huttler has become the resident poet of Cross-Currents. Readers under 40 may not know what a poem is; those over 40 may find that it...
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