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...
Category: Jewish World
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...
Jewish Gene-ius
Jews are smarter than everyone else. This is the opening premise of an explosive study released last week, and given extensive coverage in the New York Times and the Economist. There is no cause...
Viennese Pastries vs. Pickled Herring
On May 30 I posted below some sketchy thoughts (“American versus Israeli haredi sector”) I had in my initial reaction to a Jerusalem Post op-ed by Elliot Jager “American haredi triumph” . There were...
Yom HaShoah
Every year, I mark Yom Hashoah by discussing with my 12th grade Jewish history students (Bais Yakov of Miami) why we don’t do Yom Hashoah. The discussion is slightly subversive, in that by having...
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