Author: Yaakov Menken

UPDATED: A tallis and two pairs of tefillin were found in the Montreal airport… and contact has already been made between finder and owner. Thanks to at least one C-C reader who participated in...

For years, Jonathan Rosenblum has written about the antics of Israel’s Supreme Court and its Chief Justice Aharon Barak. For most of those years it seemed few outside the Orthodox world were listening, but...

Recently, I’ve been in an ongoing dialogue with a committed Jewish layman affiliated with the Conservative movement. He and I have argued on any number of occasions, and some might be very surprised to...

Rabbi Moshe Matz sent the following letter: Dear Friends, This year we saw powerful storms that wrought havoc across the country. Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and then Hurricane Rita followed, once again...

Several weeks ago, Rabbi Feldman wrote concerning a flyer published by a Jerusalem shopping mall. The flyer contained an article about the then-upcoming fast of Yom Kippur, and provided several tips in order to...

The Eulogies of Rav Naftoli (Herman) Neuberger are available in MP3 format to listen now (stream) or download. The audio of the individual speakers is available through TorahMedia.

The hespedim, eulogies, for Rav Neuberger were delivered beginning at 8 pm this evening. HaRav Aharon Feldman shlit”a, Rosh HaYeshiva, was the first speaker. He began by speaking about the terrific help that Rav...

Saturday’s Washington Post carried an AP article, Orthodox Answers to Unusual Questions, on the religion page. While I couldn’t find it on the Washington Post site, CNN/Netscape has the same article. It discusses the...

As YomTov arrived, I realized that I had heard “somewhere” about a prominent scientist who proposed the genetic seeding of Planet Earth, which is related to my previous post about Darwin vs. Design. With...

With the 150-year anniversary of The Origin of Species just a few years away, here’s a startling fact: most Americans don’t buy it. According to CBS News, 51% believe that G-d Created humans as...