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...
The custom of avoiding kitniyos (legumes – and others!) on Pesach survived a rocky start, and the smirks of our Sephardic brothers and sisters. Survive it did, and never have so many been so...
Rabbi Aaron Stefansky z”l Watch: Early Lakewood Cheder Memories by Rabbi Aron Stefansky z”l How I Survived a Humvee Explosion in Iraq Beis Yitzchak Volume 57 – Just published Passover at Disney World? Why some Jews...
In the summer of 1776, Benjamin Franklin proposed that the Great Seal of the United States should depict Moshe Rabbeinu at the Yam Suf, his staff lifted high and the Mitzriyim drowning in the...
As we head into the final stretches of Pesach preparation, we anticipate the tension increasing: so much to do, so little time to do it, and to squeeze it all into very set time frames –...
JOFA’s distortions of Rabbi Pruzansky’s words, and attempts to silence him, draw upon tactics reminiscent of the Soviet era.
We get so caught up in the details of the seder that we can lose sight of its broader importance. When we gather bezras Hashem this Friday night, we will all orchestrate different types...
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