Author: Yitzchok Adlerstein

It took the United States a century and a half to tell itself that it had meaningfully rid itself of discrimination against African-Americans. Even so, few people really believe that anti-black sentiment has been...

Inter alia means “among other things.” Legal types use it quite often, along with other choice Latin phrases. Using Latin adds presence, if not a bit of pretentiousness, to a document. Sometimes, you need...

The almost wall-to-wall fury of the world community against Israel’s boarding of the Mavi Marmara surprised even some veteran advocates for Israel, who daily trudge through the slime of international hatred of the Jewish...

While Hitler y”s extended the definition of “Jew” in order to keep Aryan blood pure, his successors have worked to shrink the definition. To counter the prevalent Christian Zionist notion of G-d’s immutable covenant...

Earlier this week, I attended a fundraiser for the Aleinu Family Resource Center, a project of Jewish Family Services in Los Angeles that provides an array of specialized assistance to the Orthodox community. Aleinu...

I don’t care so much about what went wrong. I want to know what I should be doing to help. Israel is on the ropes. The people who coordinated the flotilla are part of...

Poetry stirs the soul. For better or worse, my favorite mood-setter before Matan Torah is not a particular story, mashal, or medrash. It is a poem, authored by someone who first learned in Volozhin,...