THE LEGACY OF RAV BELSKY, ZT’L Obergefell and the Jewish Community – Fantastic essay by Rabbi Pruzansky American Orthodox Jews will miss Scalia, their great defender The Passing of Justice Scalia . . ....
Call it a truce or call what it what you will, but the two movements seem somehow closer today than the way things appeared a generation ago. What, indeed, has happened here? What hath God wrought?
“Secular Orthodox.” That’s how Avinoam Bar-Yosef, president of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, recently characterized many Israelis. What he meant was that, while an Israeli may not be observant of halachah, or even...
I rise on a question of personal privilege on behalf of an esteemed colleague. An open debate of ideas is appropriate (as we have said all along), but unfounded mischaracterization of a writer’s motivations and dialogue with others is quite out of line.
The new Israeli agreement to create an “egalitarian” section at the Western Wall promises not merely a fissure, but fragmentation. It has already exposed the fault line of disagreement between the Reform movement and the Reform-funded Women of the Wall.
It was only a few years ago that a few guys tired of listening to each other kvetch, and put together a very modest action plan. The first step was a secret conclave of...
Yesterday was tense. It was uncomfortable. It was a day of squeezing in a lengthy reply to Dr. Marc Shapiro’s post about some of my writings, between loads of regular work and with almost no...
Rabbi Genack’s Hesped for Rabbi Belsky Rav Yisroel Belsky Zt”l A thought about Rav Belsky Zt’L – by Mordechai Dornbush Orthodox Jewish trader, immigrant Harvard grad, killed by Manhattan crane collapse Obergefell and the...
It was a great polemical piece – but it sorely missed the point. Dr. Marc Shapiro’s new article, Open Orthodoxy and Its Main Critic, part 1, goes to town elaborating on my allegedly unfair and unbalanced...
The way we reach people changes all the time, but not the creativity of the real superstars. Here are two recent contributions by some of the most talented people in the world of kiruv,...
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