Author: Yitzchok Adlerstein

Move over, Hillary. You have some steep competition. Hillary and Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau are both unannounced candidates for the office of President of their respective countries. About four weeks ago, Ehud Olmet announced...

Remember the fabulous finned phenomenon of a few years past? A fish which began conversing with a worker in a store in a Jewish enclave near Monsey, and which, upon further interrogation, was found...

No matter how you treat – or do not treat – Yom Hazikaron and Yom Haatzmaut, there is something in the story that follows that should tug at our heart strings. We should remember...

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...