Category: Judaism

I would have resisted the temptation to comment, were it not for an irresistible opportunity to tie it all in to the parsha. We’ve seen a huge debate over the last week or so...

At every time of adversity, enterprising people have found ways to turn catastrophe to their own advantage. Every war, every conflict produced its profiteers – some legally, some not so. The tragicomedy of the...

Harav Mordechai Krausz, Zt”l, Rosh Yeshivas Ohr Hachaim My Last Meeting With Elie Wiesel Remembering the Ungvarer Rov zt”l with Elie Wiesel Father of 10 killed in terrorist shooting remembered as intellectual and giving...

If you live in New York City and need to keep kids busy on a hot summer day, you go to a good museum and hope that the kids will take interest in at...

We note with great sadness the petirah of one of the deans of the American rabbinate, Rabbi Maurice Lamm. My most vivid recollection of Rabbi Lamm is of the person who firmly put a...

In a new twist on the old “Jews to the back of the bus” routine, Donniel Hartman, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, wants the Jewish G-d to take a back seat...

I cannot imagine a better, succinct, even-keeled examination of global BDS than this. Not surprisingly, it was penned by a commentator without peer – Yossi Klein Halevi. Bookmark this one, and then give copies...

A new “blockbuster” survey has been published online to offer insights into why some people “leave” Orthodox practice and go OTD (“Off the Derekh”). This most recent entry in Jewish demography is based on...

Rabbonim Issue Call for Action on Child Abuse and Molestation and Call to Action Judaism: Behaalotcha (Diaspora): The gap year – A must-read. The Bostoner Rebbe of Beit Shemesh, zt”l Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Finkel z”l Reb Heshy...