Good Siyum HaShas Coverage
From WNYC New York, an outlet that covered the Siyum, and did it very well:
Category: Judaism
Yeshiva Day School Financing: A Case Study
by Micah Segelman Amid the recent avalanche of attention that the issues of tuition and the financing of chinuch have received, I wanted to share some experiences from my children’s small yeshiva day school...
We Are Not The World
Chanukah is far from most minds these days, understandably. And yet symbols of the societal showdown that yielded its commemoration lie before us. In a particularly conspicuous “we run and they run” display, the...
The Siyum: Where Was The Press?
One concern disturbed my reverie at the Los Angeles celebration of the siyum. Where had all the press gone? By the time I was on my way home, however, I realized that the press’...
I Am Charedi
by Yaakov Rosenblatt I am charedi. I was born in Brooklyn, went to mainstream charedi elementary and high schools, spent two years in Mir Yerushalayim and attended Kollel at Beth Medrash Gevoha in Lakewood,...
The NY Times and the Siyum of Daf Yomi
In his pre-Siyum Hashas post which reprises his wonderful op ed piece in the Los Angeles Times, Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein makes reference to the coverage of the last Siyum, including a front page article...
Friends Don’t Let Friends Write Bunk
It is painful to publicly criticize something written by a dear friend. But improper public words require a public response. I have known Chanan Gordon for years and deeply admire his passion to bring...
Selling the Siyum: a Los Angeles Times Op-ed
On Sunday, the Los Angeles Times ran my op-ed on the upcoming Siyum Daf Yomi. I would love to say that I am enough of an anav not to be proud of publishing in...
A Quick Mood-Setter for Tisha B’Av
Courtesy of Aish.com Let us daven that all who are called banim la-Makom should be ready! [Hat-tip to Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Los Angeles]
Blending Families
By Yakov Horowitz These lines are written in loving memory of our dear father, Reb Shlomo Zev ben Reb Baruch Yehudah Nutovic a’h, whose first yahrtzeit is 7 Menachem Av. May the positive lessons...
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