Author: Yitzchok Adlerstein

There are so many ways to appreciate and cherish the work of Simon Wiesenthal, who passed away last week. Although one of my jobs is with the institution that bears his name, I don’t...

Is it plausible that the expulsion from Gaza may have yielded some unforeseen benefit? I can’t help but feel that, to some degree, things backfired for the left. Some of its pundits described it...

We were privileged to have Dr Judea and Ruth Pearl at our Shabbos table a week ago. They left us a copy of their book, I Am Jewish, which collected reactions of several scores...

John Buchanan, pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago, is one of the good guys. His denomination was the first among those in the Protestant mainline to vote for divestment from Israel last...

This item, from David Bedein in Efrat, more than speaks for itself. A newsworthy side-bar to the funeral of the four Israeli Arabs who were killed on the bus in Shfaram in Thursday was...

Rav Moshe zt”l repeatedly referred to American as a medinah shel chesed – a country of lovingkindness, particularly when it came to being hospitable to traditional Jews. Sitting with the Los Angeles Police Commissioner...

The current issue of the Columbia Journalism Review provides independent confirmation of positions taken by two of the favorite people in my life – Rav Moshe Feinstein zt”l and my youngest son, Akiva ....

There are things you can’t learn from books. You’ve got to learn them from lawyers. Strange as this seems, it is supported by Maharal. At least the first part. Maharal on Avos 2:9 (according...

Cross-Currents is trying hard to stay out of the political arena. Not that its contributors think that “politics” is outside the arena of Torah commentary. My guess is that every contributor to this blog...

Dostoevsky used to say that Russians imbibe anti-Semitism with their mothers’ milk. Despite the terrible things it portends for our brethren in the FSU, I was somewhat underwhelmed by the news that the RussiState...