Shlomo Yehudah Rechnitz’s Powerful Jeremiad
It’s gone viral. We’re calling attention to it because it is so important that we would like to do our share of publicizing what should be read by everyone. Let no one say that...
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Weekly Digest – News and Essays In and Out of Orthodoxy – Week of Parshas Yisro 5776
A Tribute to My Rebbe: Rav Abba Bronspiegel, Shlita Rav Refoel Shmulevitz Zt”l “My Job in This World Is to Teach Torah” Masorah and the Role of the Jewish Woman – Transcript of Rav Twersky’s...
Torah Scrolls Grow on Trees… well, almost
What do you do when your Tu Bishvat trip to plant trees is cancelled because there is a wind storm, rain, and freezing weather in Israel – as is happening as I write this?...
When One Man’s Kiruv Success Is Another’s Misrepresentation of Torah
Don’t argue with success, they say. Especially success born of fierce devotion to a noble cause. Why would anyone who values Torah throw up obstacles in the path of a charismatic teacher of Torah,...
Interview on Open Orthodoxy
The Israel Broadcasting Authority wanted both sides of the Open Orthodox story. This was the “other side.”
The Shabbos Blizzard – Holding Down the Urban Fort
As I trod for several blocks through a few feet of snow and over waist-high snow banks, heading to Shacharis and then again to Maariv at K’hal Adath Jeshurun (KAJ/”Breuer’s”) in the face of a fierce...
Parshas Yisro – Messaging Tips from Heaven
Contemporary society does an absolutely awful job at communicating. Despite possession of the most advanced communication tools ever known, modern man would earn an F in Interpersonal Communication 1.0, were there to be such a course...
Illogical Leadership
“Because you were convincing me,” was the woman’s straightforward reply. Her questioner was my rebbe, Rav Yaakov Weinberg, zt”l, then the Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivas Ner Yisrael in Baltimore. He had asked the lady,...
Weekly Digest – News and Essays In and Out of Orthodoxy – Week of Parshas Beshalach 5776
Judaism: On the Torah article found in Rabbi Eitam’s Hy”d computer Palestinian suspected of killing Israeli mother detained – “Israel says the violence is the result of a Palestinian campaign of lies and incitement. The...
The Abuse of History
Efraim Zuroff and I have crossed swords in public debate and print more times than I care to remember. The man harbors an astounding animus for chareidi Jews. That animus came bumbling to the...
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