Author: Special to Cross-Currents

Chief Rabbi (UK) Sir Jonathan Sacks [The following piece appeared in the Times of London late last month. In the mind of one of the senior contributors to this blog, it is as good...

[by Rabbi Meyer May, Executive Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and President of the Rabbinical Council of California. This letter was hand-delivered to President Bush a few days ago. The text also appears...

(By Noam Neusner, who was a speechwriter and Jewish liaison for President Bush from 2002-2005.) President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush will watch Monday night as the grandsons of Harry Truman and David...

[Rabbi Ilan Feldman is the rav of Cong. Beth Jacob in Atlanta, and a member of the Board of AJOP] The challenges of battle come at combatants fast and furiously, and can never be...

[Rabbi Marvin Hier, Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, delivered these remarks to a community gathering at the Chabad center in Westwood, Los Angeles. The gathering drew not only Jews, but the Mayor, politicians,...

By Rabbi Reuven Tradburks [R. Tradburks is the rav of Kehillat Shaarei Torah in Toronto, the President of the Toronto Vaad Harabonim and former Director of its Beis Din, and a former Board member...

by Rabbi Elchonon Oberstein I have just come home from the wedding of Hershel and Esther Boehm’s daughter Rifky to Shuie Anisfeld. As at most frum weddings, there was a long wait for the...

by Dr. William Kolbrener What I’m getting from the first ripples I’m making in the blogosphere is that there really is no such thing as ‘openminded’ Torah. Yaakov (who is a colleague of mine)...