This article originally appeared in Times of Israel. The art of deflection and of evading reply to the substance of the argument is not limited to the discourse in the current US Presidential campaign....
The American liberal movements are actively fighting the growth of Torah in Israel, threatening rupture, and claim to know Israel’s security needs better than Israelis. By what measure could an Orthodox Rabbi call them Partners?
Editor: Gary Rosenblatt asserts that, as per the headline over his recent June 17 essay, “Ruth’s Conversion Would Be Rejected Today” by the Israeli rabbinate. The Jewish religious tradition, however, sees precisely in the...
We don’t often see an effort by a beis din that ties together so many elements of the Orthodox community – Israel and the US; haredi and centrist. Sadly, it is a warning to...
Comprehensive book about the Open Orthodox movement just published Harav Chaim Zelig Fasman, zt”l Leading rabbi challenges Sweden: End bans on milah, shechita Op-Ed: With partners like these… Why So Many Young Jewish Couples...
The heads of the American Reform and Conservative movements believe that Jewish love for Israel comes with terms and conditions, and that they control the American Jewish heart. They are inflating their importance on both sides of the Atlantic, and placing naked self-interest ahead of the unity of the Jewish People.
Rabbi David Rosenthal has done that which few others can do when dealing with a lightning rod issue. Whereas most naturally engage in polemics from the bottom up, reacting critically or harshly defending (albeit...
Somewhere on earth there may be a more fractious, violent, convulsed and combative place than the Iraqi city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad. But it’s not likely. Currently, Fallujah is in the news because...
I used to think that Hitlerism and Fascism could never find a home in America because, unlike Germany, America does not have a history of aggression and militarism. But one can no longer be sanguine.
Shortly after posting “Coming Out” and the Orthodox Rabbinate, R. Ysoscher Katz of YCT posted a defense of the recent Eshel shabbaton on the Lower East Side and a stinging attack on the rabbis who...
