Category: Judaism

Only in the mind of the modern feminist can an orthodox Rabbi advocate for pre-marital sexual abstinence and be deemed a rape apologist. Such was the peculiar response in some precincts to my recent essay.

With thanks to those who arranged and attended the shiur today, it is now available for download. It is similar to the style of previous years, with mostly new content from the Chasam Sofer,...

by Rabbi Eliyahu Safran With speech comes the power to raise up and to bring down, to pray to God and to demean others. Speech is also easy and, too often, used thoughtlessly or,...

Rav Chaim Yosef Goldberg zt”l 71 Years Later, Dachau Victim’s Remains Are Brought to Rest in St. Louis OU KOSHER PRE-PASSOVER WEBINAR 2016 Orthodox Union Rejects Sen. Sanders’ Statements about Israel Bernie Sanders: A...

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” may generally be sound advice, but it happily has been ignored in regard to classic Torah works. The last decades have seen a steady stream of improvements...

  You’ve got to watch out for those haredim. They are going to take over the Jewish world, if you don’t stop them. We’ve just learned of another stealth target of theirs – Israel’s...

Certain that our loyal readers wanted more details about the New York Times story on the project to translate Shas into Italian, Cross-Currents’ team of investigative reporters set out to get the inside scoop....

Hagaon Harav Meir Soloveitchik, zt”l Israeli gov’t gets another 3 months to come up with Western Wall egalitarian plan Israeli conversion ruling dents Chief Rabbinate’s control of ritual A lesson for the Jews—from ‘The...

Jonathan Rosenblum and I discovered decades ago that we were kindred spirits. We rarely disagree. We did disagree twice about the recent[1] Klal Perspectives shabbaton in Baltimore, although he won’t find out about the...