The sad story of a contemporary writer critical of the Vaad Hatzala and its Holocaust rescue work took a bizarre turn last week. Cross-Current readers get the inside story first. January 17, the anniversary...
In an earlier post, I published the sharp but friendly remarks that we traded, on camera (so to speak) and off. I took up the challenge to offer a halachic defense of the permissibility...
What started as a poorly constructed blog entry of mine has morphed into an ongoing exchange with David Klinghoffer. Some of it has been public; some in the form of private correspondence between us. ...
That rabbi being me, a week ago. A good part of my responsibilities at the Simon Wiesenthal Center (which is where I am when not at Yeshiva of Los Angeles or Loyola Law School...
When both my wife and Jonathan Rosenblum think I left room for some serious misunderstanding of my position, I know I’m in trouble. Allow me to explain what I do and do not believe,...
If you ask me, they all got it wrong. He did not wear the hat to look more pious. Decades ago, the head of a large group within American Orthodoxy faced extremely serious charges...
I’m still gathering my thoughts after a wonderful Shabbos at the annual West Coast Orthodox Union Torah Convention. That’s a lot of words for one title, and it generated experiences and memories commensurate with...
Joe – You came closer than anyone to denting my argument. (UCLA Law has done well by you. You are hereby entitled to an extra piece of kugel next time you come for Shabbos.)...
Some folks – in the Comments section, and in personal communications – really disagreed with my piece on Tookie. I disagree back. The common denominator of the malaise of the largest group is that...
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