Ais Tzarah Hi L’Yaakov
I don’t care so much about what went wrong. I want to know what I should be doing to help. Israel is on the ropes. The people who coordinated the flotilla are part of...
Category: Judaism
A Day We Will Not Forget
For those who are in a position to do any damage control with friends and neighbors, this is still the most compelling video showing what the naval commandos who boarded the lead ship had...
The Rebbe and the General
Israeli historian Arie Morgenstern tells of a fascinating difference of opinion between the Lubavitcher Rebbe, z”l, and Moshe Dayan in the current (Winter) issue of Azure. The setting is the Yom Kippur War. Morgenstern,...
Quite Unconventional
When you attend a convention over Shabbos and several days later you still feel your neshama tingling, you know that what you experienced was rather . . . unconventional. That captures the experience my...
Rapper’s Sabbath
Despite having eclectic tastes in many things, I have no appreciation of urban music. And so I had never heard of Q-Tip (the person, that is; the object is familiar to me). He is...
Mr. Klal Yisrael
The precondition for the acceptance of the Torah, which we will be experiencing again in a few days, was that the Jewish people first achieve the status of “k’ish echad b’lev echad – as...
Ode to Shavuos
Poetry stirs the soul. For better or worse, my favorite mood-setter before Matan Torah is not a particular story, mashal, or medrash. It is a poem, authored by someone who first learned in Volozhin,...
Celebrating Submission
The Jewish people at Mount Sinai created its eternal bond with the Creator by accepting His gift of gifts to them.
Of Cartoons and Coldhearted Cowardice – Part 2
Of all the Forward has done to bully those from whom it has no fear of a fatwa, nothing compares with what it has written editorially in the wake of Sholom Rubashkin’s conviction, as...
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