Two Popes and the Holocaust
Perhaps we cant always determine guilt from a distance. I learned long ago that criticizing other faiths is fraught with danger. We often lack some of the pieces. Despite what I intuit, I am...
Author: Yitzchok Adlerstein
Say It Ain’t So, Joe
A Catholic aquaintance just couldn’t believe that L’Osservatore Romano, a Vatican newspaper, could have been so obtuse and mean-spirited as to criticize Israel for offering IDF field hospitals to Sri Lanka. She was right....
‘Tis the Season (Part Two)
A few days ago, I threw out the idea that the adoption of divestment motions by mainline churches is a greater threat to Jewish interests than PETAs challenge to shechita. The former introduces the...
PETA: Only the OU’s Approach Was Kosher
The only one who got the PETA thing right was Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Weinreb of the OU. Im glad I finally said it. Ive been wanting to say it for weeks, and didnt have...
‘Tis The Season (Part 1 1/2)
I couldn’t resist. My heart just bursts with gratitude. And to think I ever said anything mean about PCUSA head Clifton Kirkpatrick. His letter to President Bush must have been his Christmas gift to...
‘Tis The Season (Part One)
While some of my colleagues on this blog (Yaakov Menken and Jeff Ballabon in particular) continue to hammer away at their keyboards in high dudgeon, they are oblivious to the real devils lurking out...
Pay-back time for Jewish supporters of the President
By now, many people have figured out from where came many of the new Jewish votes for the President. Has anyone in higher places taken note? The answer, according to Eve Kesslers report in...
Rebuke without offending
Skip this if you never have to comment on delicate issues to people outside our community. The rest of us may recall the passage in the Talmud regarding the commandment to rebuke wrongdoers. In...
He Finally Got it Right
In a strange reversal of the career of Yochanan Kohen Gadol (who went bad after 80 years – see Talmud Berachos 29A), an illustrious British philosopher has foresaken atheism at the age of 81
Celebrating the death of our enemies
News of Arafats death a few weeks ago was met withconfusion. No one shed any tears, but people were unsure as to whether Jews ever celebrate the death of anyone.
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