(Featured photo of Rav Belsky zt”l in action at OU Headquarters for his weekly p’sak session, bedazzling captivated listeners with his Torah, wit and genius. Photo credit: Rabbi Eliyahu Ferrell) Rabbi Chaim Yisroel Belsky...
Designating an area at the Kotel Maaravi for feminist and mixed-gender prayer not only profanes the holy site, it creates yet a further lamentable rift between Jews. For more than three decades, the Western...
This article originally appeared in Times of Israel: He rejected the concept of divine revelation; he equated God with nature; he denied the idea of a personal God, Who intervenes in history and performs...
Even the days associated with the Shoah have become nightmares. In recent times, Jews have been uninvited from Holocaust remembrance ceremonies, in deference to Muslim requests. Anti-Semitic acts have skyrocketed in Europe, and a...
Good writers get it the way the rest of us can’t. It is a joy to read how a leading French intellectual, Bernard-Henri Levy, understands and presents the yarmulke in imagery that is fresh...
It’s gone viral. We’re calling attention to it because it is so important that we would like to do our share of publicizing what should be read by everyone. Let no one say that...
A Tribute to My Rebbe: Rav Abba Bronspiegel, Shlita Rav Refoel Shmulevitz Zt”l “My Job in This World Is to Teach Torah” Masorah and the Role of the Jewish Woman – Transcript of Rav Twersky’s...
What do you do when your Tu Bishvat trip to plant trees is cancelled because there is a wind storm, rain, and freezing weather in Israel – as is happening as I write this?...
Don’t argue with success, they say. Especially success born of fierce devotion to a noble cause. Why would anyone who values Torah throw up obstacles in the path of a charismatic teacher of Torah,...
The Israel Broadcasting Authority wanted both sides of the Open Orthodox story. This was the “other side.”
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