Author: Yitzchok Adlerstein

As two sides go at each other about the regularity of attacks on women in Ramat Beit Shemesh, both may be letting another culprits off the hook. No one has invoked Malmo. Or Umea....

Actually, it probably isn’t. But if you want to listen anyway, my annual Pesach machshavah shiur is now up and running. About an hour and ten minutes of generally deeper material, citing from Torah...

Women of all varieties are invited – even those with faces! – to my annual Pesach shiur, Monday April 3rd at noon at 1399 S Roxbury Dr, third floor. No change, and plenty of...

A group of intrepid women is pushing back against a problematic practice in our community. We should all try to help them out. There are twelve gates in Heaven, to accommodate the different forms...

This is not about the tuition crisis. There are prices we are asked to pay other than money. Consider this, from an interview with a major religious authority: People thinking about our engagement with...

“I rubbed my eyes; perhaps I was dozing.” Thus begins one of the first paragraphs in a very strange op-ed (February 15) by Mishpacha’s editor-in-chief Rabbi Moshe Grylak. With those words, the author expresses...

We’re not supposed to say it. But for many people it is true. They have their favorite parshios of Chumash, and their not-quite favorites. The latter begin, for some, this coming week. Nothing wrong,...

Rabbi Dovid Bleich’s volumes on Contemporary Halakhic Problems are the gold standard in evincing the ability of our mesorah and the timeless halachic tradition to respond to changed conditions and advances in knowledge. Volume...

The commandment to love the ger has long been the subject of a tug of war between two camps. Traditional Jews understand it the way the Talmud did – as a reference to a...

Ever since the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage, I’ve been telling evangelical audiences that communities can thrive, even when not part of the majority culture. They could learn some lessons from Orthodox Jews,...