Author: Yitzchok Adlerstein

This time it really is three opinions. Join us as we host Dr Moshe Krakowski, a pioneer in the empirical study of issues in the Orthodox community. Although usually studying the charedi cohort, he...

There are some (pleasant) surprises, and some lessons to be learned. The results are only tentative, since thousands of votes are being challenged as possibly fraudulent. Entire slates are being challenged. Nonetheless, we can...

Is it good, bad, or both to live in a bubble? What to do when you never had to live in an echo chamber before – and now find yourself planted in the middle...

Have we become hooked on segulot? Why have they become the rage in recent decades, with no end in sight to their popularity? What does this tell us about the current state of emunah...

Now on Spotify. Does everyone need a hashkafa? Can’t my avodas Hashem focus exclusively on living according to the dictates of halacha? And if I think that I do need some sort of hashkafic...

The kol korei by the American Agudah Moetzes regarding the WZO election has the makings of a huge make-it-or-break-it gamble. The guy in the street is not being asked whether he is with the...

Living in Israel as an Anglo-charedi has been a dilemma for many. On the one hand, we can understand the need to preserve halachic standards, and the history of broken commitments by the government....

The latest episode of Two Rabbis, Three Opinions is up and available on Spotify and elsewhere. What’s with one writer’s comparison of charedim to American Indians? Can they claim that they were the indigenous...

Two Rabbis, Three Opinions Episode 12 Our latest episode of the podcast that examines current issues from a Torah perspective (or two, or three) is now available. Rabbi Simi Lerner and I muse over...

Even inanimate objects “pray.” When a bris takes place on Rosh Hashanah, and the mohel happens to be the one who will afterwards sound the shofar, we instruct him not to wash out his...