Two At The Times
Kiddush Hashem happens – even in the New York Times. David Brooks’ appreciation of the Orthodox community will be talked about this Shabbos. So will the heart-wrenching translation of the letter of thanks that...
Author: Yitzchok Adlerstein
Good Questions To Ask Ourselves
Even as Prime Minister Netanyahu’s efforts to put together a coalition founder on the issue of inclusion of charedi parties, the acrimonious debate continues. Doubtless, readers have had their fill of both attacks on...
The Torah Oscars
No need to pass the envelope. To this judge, there is not much of a contest. The clear winner in multiple categories is Torah Live. We in the Torah world are hardly Luddites. But...
The Purim-Pesach Nexus
For most of us, two ideas dominate the connection between Purim and Pesach. Some of us remember the Rashi, whose “marbim besimcha” includes both Adar and Nisan. Others pragmatically take note of the kickoff...
It’s Not Your Mother’s Knesset
What would have surprised Israel’s founding fathers more: the growth of an observant community many believed was destined to disappear in short order, or its intrusion into the very non-hallowed halls of government? The...
Parnasah – Taking It Beyond Mishpacha
A recent article in Mishpacha (“Making it Work, January 3, 2013) provided advice to young men on the cusp of leaving kollel and entering the job market. The article was a good beginning in...
Ed Koch and the Unanswered Question
He was as direct, forceful and iconoclastic in death as he was in life. Not halachically committed during his lifetime, he ensured that an entire world would understand that the core of his self-definition...
Past AJOP Recording
A year ago, my topic at an AJOP session, “The Top Ten Reasons Frum People Are Unhappy With Their Yiddishkeit” was considered mildly controversial. We went back and forth about whether it should be...
Liberman on Torah
“It’s not as complicated as Torah.” That’s Liberman, not Lieberman. Aaron, the basketball player at Northwestern who plays for a Division I team with kippah and tzitzis, and is spending lots of time learning...
Yair Lapid at Kiryat Ono – The Transcript
[Editor’s note: An earlier post provided the video link to Yair Lapid’s presentation to the haredi law track at Kiryat Ono College. Realizing that many readers were eager to evaluate the message without investing...
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