Non-Orthodox Responses to the Siyum Daf Yomi
By the morning after the Siyum I had already traded messages with Rabbi Avi Shafran. I was intrigued by the participation of non-Orthodox Jews in the study of the Daf. Would those who committed...
Author: Yitzchok Adlerstein
The Siyum: Where Was The Press?
One concern disturbed my reverie at the Los Angeles celebration of the siyum. Where had all the press gone? By the time I was on my way home, however, I realized that the press’...
Selling the Siyum: a Los Angeles Times Op-ed
On Sunday, the Los Angeles Times ran my op-ed on the upcoming Siyum Daf Yomi. I would love to say that I am enough of an anav not to be proud of publishing in...
A Quick Mood-Setter for Tisha B’Av
Courtesy of Aish.com Let us daven that all who are called banim la-Makom should be ready! [Hat-tip to Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Los Angeles]
Tenth Yahrzeit of Rav Nachman Bulman zt”l
Many of our readers, I’ve been told, turn to Cross-Currents for a balanced view on issues. They look here for commentary faithful to Torah values, free of extremism, and admitting to nuance. If we...
Response to Dr. Schick
Dr. Schick has just demonstrated that even great thinkers make mistakes. In “When Homer Nodded,” Dr. Schick makes one major error and a number of smaller ones. His great faux-pas is in implying that...
Israel Foolishly Offends the Left
There is no joy in Berkeley. Mighty Israel has struck out! As if Israel were not already in enough trouble with leftists, she had to really get under their skin. Leftists in Israel teach...
Entering The Three Weeks
Groundless hatred cost us the beis ha-mikdosh, and cast us into a galus we have still not extricated ourselves from. This short YouTube, part of a film competition in Israel, might help get some...
A New, Ugly Wrinkle in the Tuition Crisis
There is a new kind of captive in the making, but do not expect to see any pidyon shvuyim effort on his or her behalf. This new prisoner is a sad by-product of the...
More Than a Catchy Tune
My musical tastes favor Mahler over MBD, anytime. So why do I love this new tune and its video treatment so much? Probably because it succeeds in taking something as somber as debilitating childhood...
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