Please, Leave Me Be
by Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman If you are seeking from me words of comfort and consolation you will not find them. If you are reading this in order for you gain some sort of...
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Supporting Him, Supporting You
By Alexandra Fleksher Just before Shavuos, women in Cleveland, Ohio, got together to attend a panel discussion entitled, “Supporting our Husbands who are Working: Supporting him, Supporting you.” The panelists, in their 20s and...
America’s Got Chillul Hashem
by Dan Butler The various news and social media have been crowing about the “modern Orthodox” 12-year-old who appeared last night on AMERICA’S GOT TALENT. This little caricature of the caricature “Jacob”-a painfully embarrassing...
Walking to the End
by Yaakov Rosenblatt One year ago, on June 14, 2013 daredevil Nik Wallenda crossed the Little Colorado River Gorge, in Rocky Mountain, CO, walking high above the span on a two inch cable. The...
A Chasidic View of Parnasah
transcribed and edited by Yaacov Dovid Shulman A Few Introductory Words The import of the following essay is that throughout Jewish history Torah learning has always been of preeminent important: “and you shall study...
Silence – Approaching Chumash Bamidbar
by Jeremy Rosen In my schooldays one of the favorite punishments of our teachers was to get the whole school, when it got too noisy or out of hand, to remain on silence, sitting...
The End of the Begin-ing
by Doron Beckerman The year 1977 witnessed a watershed event in the history of Modern Israel. Chaim Yavin, famed Israeli news anchor, announced the mahapach – the transformation of the political map; the right...
Call For Material to Honor R Hershel Schachter
[Editor’s Note: Given the large place that Rav Schachter’s thought has contributed to the discussions on the blog, the request to post the request that follows seems eminently reasonable.] In honor of Rav Schachter’s...
A Letter From a Troubled Charedi Father
Dovid Landesman My late rebbi, Rav Dov Schwartzman z”l, once told me that the essence of the sin of the spies dispatched by Moshe is that they were motzi dibat ha-aretz in chutz la-aretz...
More on Drafting Yeshiva Boys
by Rabbi Doron Beckerman Many of the arguments regarding the hot-button topic of drafting Yeshiva boys unfortunately seem to suffer from profound confusion. In an attempt to clarify the issues as seen from a...
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