Category: General

I will say it straight out. The President should not have told members of The Squad to go back to where they came from. It is disappointing that he used language that – whatever...

Israeli Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz was recently attacked by non-Orthodox leaders for describing assimilation and intermarriage in the US as a “second Holocaust”. Here is Coalition for Jewish Values’ reaction to the attacks...

My recent Yated article about Young Israel of Toco Hills (YITH) seceding from National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) elicited quite a firestorm on social media, to put it mildly. I would like to briefly address...

This was a somewhat busy week in terms of writing – something I have not really done for a long while. Here is my Times of Israel post about AOC’s concentration camps remarks. Here...

It was with great sadness that the first bit of news to reach me after Shavuos here in Yerushalayim was the petirah of R. Nosson Kamenetsky zt”l. While some will remember him for the...

Please click here for the updated OU aged cheese list, and here for an article I wrote in the Jewish Press about the recent gay ordination episode. Wishing everyone a good Yom Tov!  ...

Torah is sometimes compared to wine, whose aficionados speak of different sensations at different places on the tongue. When Rav Soloveitchik’s thoughts (below) first hit my mental palate, they answered a question I had...

Listening to an old recording recently, I was taken aback by a statement in passing by of one of the participants. Kol kevudah bas melech penimah,[1] he opined, meant that women should keep themselves...