Apparently, it is believed that an aggressive PR blitz which broadcasts pretty much the same information over and over again is the most effective way to convince people that something is good and true....
This article originally appeared on Arutz Sheva. It’s described all over mainstream media as the North Carolina Anti-LGBT Law – intentionally creating a picture of old-time Southern bigotry, conjuring up images of signs in...
Rabbi Safran’s important piece stimulated a flood of comments and responses, the vast majority as of yet unpublished. Most fall into a few discrete categories, and might best be dealt with en masse. Here...
He may not have meant it as a threat, but Reform Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, certainly sounded like he was delivering an ultimatum when he warned that if...
Kohanim May Not Be Permitted to Visit Liberty Science Center This June-January He Was My Father On Losing A Friend Meet the Women Changing the Face of Orthodox Journalism NEW WHITEWASH OF FDR’S FAILURE TO...
A single standard applies. Not just for one time, but for all time. It is not for the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) or anyone else to redefine that standard, for the standard was put in place from the beginning. “You shall be holy for I, the Lord your God, am holy.”
With considerable embarrassment I offer this entirely unnecessary review. Unnecessary, because the previous two volumes of the Rav Soloveitchik Chumash were earlier introduced to readers of Cross-Currents. Those two reviews are the two witnesses...
What do modern-day conversion and Yisro have in common? Not so much, according to the people I know. Records kept over many years by the beis din on which I sit (the RCC, in...
It’s hard to take the article seriously, due to its vast misunderstanding of what Orthodox Judaism should be as well as the article’s quite erroneous general assumptions, but something needs to be said in...
Harav Yaakov Thumim, Altshtadter Rav, zt”l Jerusalem Post Editorial: Everyone’s Rabbi CHAMETZ SHEAVAR ALAV HAPESACH: THE SUPERMARKET CONTROVERSY How my grandmother’s chutzpah helped Sugihara rescue thousands of Jews American Jewry Will No Longer Be...
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