To Serve with Honor
I recently received the following painful question and gave the following response. It is posted here with the questioner’s permission, of course. Readers’ comments, as always, are welcome. I have added some translations from...
Category: Jewish World
Lifnei Iver… Do I put a stumbling block before the blind?
10 bIyyar I often wonder whether my participating in blogs, debates, and discussions, can lead to my putting a stumbling block before the blind- violating the prohibition we read here last week from Parashat...
The controversy over Holocaust, Fallen Soldiers, Terror Victims memorials
6 bIyyar 5766 Last year on May 6,2005, Toby Katz posted a thoughtful essay in Cross-currents titled Yom HaShoah explaining why the Israeli Holocaust Remembrance day is deeply problematic. I reread her essay and...
Chanuka — holiday of pluralism or holiday of truth?
With Chanuka coming in a few days we can be sure that along with the Chanuka tree and the Chanuka wreath, we will have the annual round of phony newspaper stories about Chanuka being...
A Jerusalem Yankee in the King of Sweden’s Court
Motzei Shabbat 9 bKislev Luckily for Jews, Alfred Nobel passed away on December 10 and not during the summer over a century ago. The King of Sweden awards the Nobel Prizes annually on December...
End of heterodoxy, deja vu.
29 b Heshvan On November 27 Ori Pomerantz posed a question under the heading, The end of heterodoxy? Imagine that tonight there was a miracle, and tomorrow morning all the rabbis and chazzanim of...
“He didn’t get to say the Shma”
Saturday night 12 bMarHeshvan Two brief comments on the Rabin memorial (the Hebrew yahrzeit is tonight) which is taking place in Tel Aviv as I write these lines, in the square where the Prime...
Jewish ingratitude
#1 I don’t know if Paul Krugman reads Cross-Currents or what, but that far-left NY Times writer had a column today seemingly in reply to my post of a few weeks ago.
Prayer rally at the Kotel last Wednesday
My friends, Aharon and Jennifer Ungar, went on Aliyah about a year ago. Aharon has been keeping a journal of their experiences in Israel, which he sends to his friends. The following is from...
Yahrzeit of Rav Nachman Bulman, zt”l
Tonight, 26 Tammuz, is my father’s third yahrzeit. In my Jewish Action article about my father, which appeared a few months after his petira, I wrote: “Working with his close friend, Eliyahu Kitov, he...
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