There’s a Reason Hashem Invented Capitalism
The real haters won’t be satisfied until all the men close their gemaros. But for others – the majority of Israelis, I am led to believe – if families are self-sufficient and not on...
Author: Yitzchok Adlerstein
When Hate (of Israel) Turns To Love
When a group of Israeli students at Harvard secured funding for the Harvard Israel Trek, they opened up the opportunity to fellow students of all backgrounds. Fifty were selected from 300 applicants. One Oliver...
A Different Approach to Internet Safety For Teens
I found the approach towards internet safety for teens that the Kiryat Arba/Hebron Ulpana High School for Girls champions refreshing and even inspiring. It is very different from what our haredi schools do...
What OU Kashrus Looks Like From the Inside
Last week’s essay on kashrus supervision attracted far more attention than I would have anticipated. I sensed that misinformation abounded about the OU, the people who work in kashrus, and their halachic standards. The...
Better than the OU?
Food for thought. In an interview in Mishpacha’s current issue, the co-owner of First Choice baby foods tells of his impetus for starting his business: I’m a chassidishe guy – I got married at...
The Spirit of Conservatism
Defining things by what they aren’t is almost always unsatisfying. Negative definitions can be useful in distancing us from what we need to reject, but they don’t tell us much about the alternatives. Applied...
From the Mother of the Meah Shearim Attack Victim
[Sometimes it is good to hear what it feels like from the people closest to the event. Thanks to Dr Moshe Shoshan for the translation.] It has been a stormy Shabbat for us as...
Tikvah Institute For Yeshiva Men – Second Season
We are excited to announce that applications are now being accepted for this summer’s Tikvah Institute for Yeshiva Men. Buoyed by a dream last year, we launched a program aimed at some of the...
Reflections of a Non-Talmid
It was not the small number of personal interactions with Rav Aharon Lichtenstein zt”l that made the greatest impression upon me. To be sure, I could detect greatness, humility, lomdus. But I wasn’t around...
Happy Birthday to a Great Country: Haaretz vs. the Meshech Chochmah
I still don’t understand why my friends at the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles urged me some time ago to attend a small reception for Avi Shavit and his then-current book, My Promised Land....
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