Category: General

Even inanimate objects “pray.” When a bris takes place on Rosh Hashanah, and the mohel happens to be the one who will afterwards sound the shofar, we instruct him not to wash out his...

Each year, I share some brief thought before Rosh Hashanah with a large list of personal contacts, both Jewish and non-Jewish. Some recipients have liked them, so I will share the one I mailed...

Open Orthodoxy has just endorsed lesbian marriage and intimate relations. No, this is not a typo or exaggeration. Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, who was the first graduate of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT) and now serves...

Understood. This is what rabbis do. They will always come up with a connection between events of the week and the parshah. Trust me. That is not what this is about. I had earlier...

I think it time that I step down from my role as co-editor of Cross-Currents, returning it to Rabbi Adlerstein’s full editorial supervision, given my other obligations.

Dear Michael, I’ll start with the least important point, to get it out of the way: Pas moi! Maybe check the last few pieces I posted before the one that gives you grief. You...

He strongly influenced the lives of thousands of talmidim and followers. They – and others like myself, who also gained from him – are in shock over his petirah. It occurred as we could...

By Rabbi Michael J. Broyde Dear Rabbi Adlerstein, I always look forward to your posts on Cross-Currents, and “Yerushalayim Shorts” certainly caught my attention. The middle one, in particular, surprised me. You lament an...