Quiet Gadlus
When R Aaron Lopiansky shared a moving story with his fellow advisory board members at Klal Perspectives (unvarnished plug!), I asked him for permission to publish on Cross-Currents. I am happy that he granted...
Author: Yitzchok Adlerstein
Another Point of View
Call it nepotism, if you wish. I am partial to my very extended family, which includes the people who frequented our Shabbos table for years. Even though he takes issue with some of what...
Two Ways To Help
Here are two ways in which people are addressing the horrible images of recent events that we are still haunted by. One is an opportunity to speak out; the other deals with one of...
Hi, Yankel
Just when I thought I was going to have to spend time taking issue with what others have written on these pages, Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman, Rav of Cong. Ahavas Israel in Passaic NJ...
Responses to Charedi Spring, Continued
“There is just so much good coming from that community” I’m wondering if you can list some- especially of the type that comes from them as Charedim (i.e., if the State does the same...
Response To Comments on “Charedi Spring”
Two of the challenges to my recent piece were so good that I held up posting them until I could formulate a response. The questions, alas, may be better than what I have come...
Trampling on the Kedoshim
For decades, Jews protested the misappropriation of the Shoah and its imagery. Frum Jews in particular were incensed by the desecration of the memory of the Kedoshim that occurred whenever others spoke of a...
Welcoming The Charedi Spring
The Charedi Spring may have finally arrived. Eight year old Naama Margolese may do for Israel what a Tunisian street vendor did for the Arab world. The wave of revulsion for the behavior of...
Relief For Insomnia
As my kids were growing up, they would often drift out of the beds they had been consigned to, claiming inability to fall asleep. I was often able to suggest a cure, other than...
What Kim Jong Il Missed
by staying north of the 38th Parallel Kudos to the Ponovezh hanhalah for apparently understanding the implications of this exposure, and giving the camera crew not only access to what they wanted, but even...
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