Author: Yitzchok Adlerstein

Since no one else posted, I will offer a few thoughts in the waning hours of a weekend spent mostly struggling to write a fair final for my law school students. Our reaction to,...

Everyone has his or her pet theory by now about the root causes of the Boro Park “incident” a few weeks ago. Whether provoked or not provoked, whether there was large scale participation in...

This is a story about faith meeting disloyalty. It has very little to do with Judas, though. For many centuries, the accepted New Testament account meant that Judas was a symbol of terrible things,...

The [London] Jewish Chronicle offered several participant reports about the recent conference in Spain. AP had a brief item about it, but there has not been much depth coverage of this fascinating event. Minimally,...

Everything about Chovevei Torah’s hosting of a group of cardinals to its beit midrash was appalling, wrong, and dangerous. Everything other than receiving them with warmth and dignity, and recognizing some of the important...

The month of Nisan is upon us, and our preparation for the Festival of Freedom is entering its final, frenetic state. The war in Iraq, foundering on the shoals of the primitiveness of Arab...

The blame for any perceived shortcomings with Artscroll does not belong with Artscroll. The real culprit is far more sinister. My recent post on pictures of Gedolim of previous generations unpredictably invited a large...

These photos of gedolim (world-class Torah luminaries) in their younger days should not be missed. They range from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th, and contain several dimensions of surprise....

This is one of those challenges we throw out to our readers. It represents thought in progress, not a finished product. Please don’t take it as such. The Orthodox community continues to grapple with...

We fared pretty well. Munich received no awards. Paradise Now didn’t either. The Palestinian cause will have to content itself with the cash of misguided Hollywood Jews, but not their statuettes. Brokeback did not...