Her Future on an Index Card
By Rifka Wein Harris I was annihilated by an index card. On it, it said: Mommy, what can a frum girl be? It was handed to me by my otherwise confident mini me. A...
Author: Special to Cross-Currents
The Other Orthodox Women in the Crowd
By Alexandra Fleksher In his latest Voice in the Crowd column entitled “In Her Place”, Sruli Besser does what no other chareidi columnist has done before: he recognizes how it must feel for Orthodox...
Why My Husband Won’t Be Seeing Wonder Woman
By Alexandra Fleksher Last Shabbos, Wonder Woman came up quite a lot. Friday night dinner with guests, Shabbos lunch at guests, and at kiddush after davening. Men were the ones who brought it up....
Am I a Lonely Woman of Faith?
The Orthodox Union issued the most pro-women, halachically permissive statement ever. The secular Jewish press created their own narrative without looking at the context and the trajectory of the living and breathing Orthodox community. This is lazy journalism.
Killing Off the Kill-Off – A Response to Rabbi Gordimer
by Dr. William Kolbrener In Paradise Lost, Milton imagined a readership, a ‘fit audience though few’ – for him, an ever-contracting audience sympathetic to his political and theological perspectives. As a Jew, I certainly...
The Message of Maoz Tzur: Defying Universalization of the Holocaust
by Tzipora Weinberg The story of Chanuka resists categorization. It is neither a saga of absolute redemption nor a tale of tragic loss; the onslaught at its center is considered a breach rather than...
We Have Returned
We are glad to be back! We also hope that we have closed off possible venues of attack. If anything goes amiss, we will be seeking further professional help. All of this has cost...
Rabbi Simcha Shafran ob”m
As we resume publication, we note with sadness the passing of Rabbi Simcha Shafran, father of our contributor Rabbi Avi Shafran. Rabbi Shafran was to travel from Bialystok to the famed Novardok Yeshiva when...
On Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi’s Form of “Kiruv”
Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi has voiced many things that reduce complex issues to simplistic and misleading sound bites. Misleading assertions, even when offered with the best of intentions, are dangerous.
Rabbi Norman Lamm and Henry Ford: A Tribute to One of Rabbi Lamm’s Hidden Accomplishments as He Enters his Ninth Decade
Rabbi Michael J. Broyde Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm celebrated his eighty-ninth birthday in December, 2016 and it is worth reflecting on a unacknowledged contribution of Rabbi Lamm to Jewish life in America. Of course,...
Recent Comments