Avarice or Cowardice or ???
The Forward recently reported on another in a series of what it calls “cushy confabs” that bring together the really important Jews to deliberate and pontificate (although the pontiff himself was not invited —...
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Lost in Space
Like most religions, Scientism has its articles of faith. Science, the study of nature, has a premise — the scientific method — but no required beliefs about the unseen. Scientism, by contrast — the...
Oy Vey! They Became Religious!
By Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie The women was crying. Her daughter became a Baalas Teshuva some years ago, and lives in Bnai Brak. The daughter has done everything possible to inhibit the parents from having...
Hashovas Aveidah – Dovid Yisroel HaKohen Botnick
UPDATE: The owner has been located and the item(s) returned. If anyone knows this person, please leave a comment (it won’t be published) or email. He left something in Baltimore. The spelling above is...
Feldman’s Bad Faith
Harvard Professor Noah Feldman’s lengthy whine in the July 22 New York Times Magazine about the failure of Boston’s modern Orthodox Maimonides School to acknowledge his marriage to a Korean-American fellow professor and the...
The Children Shall Lead
The story is told of a classical Reform temple somewhere in America where they blew a French Horn on Rosh Hashanah. Younger members of the congregation were dissatisfied with this, and proposed using a...
Getting to the Soul of L’Affaire Feldman
The last two weeks have provided many venues – in print and online – for valuable discussion and thoughtful responses to Professor Noah Feldman’s article in the New York Times Magazine. I was especially...
Seeing the Good
U’re’eh B’tuv Yerushalayim — Seeing the Good by Rabbi Elchonon Oberstein I recently returned from a wonderfully positive visit to Israel and want to share two observations which gave me much cause for optimism....
Of Concerts and Bans
by Rabbi Dovid Landesman I write this piece with a sense of b’dchilu u’rchimu – let’s translate this as trepidation. When I was younger I was less hesitant about being a semi-m’gadef – ascribing...
Rabbi Feinstein Speaks
A recent attack on Israel’s Chief Rabbinate invoked the late and revered American Orthodox decisor of Jewish law, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. The attacker was Professor Benjamin Ish-Shalom, the director of Israel’s Institute for Jewish...
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