Certain that our loyal readers wanted more details about the New York Times story on the project to translate Shas into Italian, Cross-Currents’ team of investigative reporters set out to get the inside scoop....
Hagaon Harav Meir Soloveitchik, zt”l Israeli gov’t gets another 3 months to come up with Western Wall egalitarian plan Israeli conversion ruling dents Chief Rabbinate’s control of ritual A lesson for the Jews—from ‘The...
Jonathan Rosenblum and I discovered decades ago that we were kindred spirits. We rarely disagree. We did disagree twice about the recent[1] Klal Perspectives shabbaton in Baltimore, although he won’t find out about the...
A few hours of pure delight at the Biblical Museum of Natural History was one of the dividends of my recent trip to Israel. Open since 2014 and housed, at least for the time...
You probably know that when a person loses some hearing, it can never be recovered. But did you know that 10 million Americans suffer noise-induced hearing loss? Or that exposure to some common sounds,...
Reform and Conservative now propose to lead the charge in Israel. Would anyone follow a general who abjectly surrendered in all major wars, and now insists on leading his troops into yet another battle?
BEH, I will be giving my annual Pesach shiur for women on Wednesday, April 13th at noon, on the third floor of 1399 S Roxbury Dr. Underground parking across the street at the Museum...
Straw men may be useful in politics, but they are not what we seek in religious discourse. That is why Dr. Steven Bayme’s op-ed Modern Orthodoxy is under attack from the right. It’s time to...
Women of the Wall plans to show preference to some women over others in a way unsupported by any version of Judaism, doing a “Jewish” ritual supported by no version of Jewish ritual, in imitation of a ceremony that aims to restore Judaism’s doubly undemocratic Holy Temple. And it claims to be doing all this in the name of egalitarianism.
Rubashkin case gets new life and RUBASHKIN BOMBSHELL MOTION UNVEILS ‘SMOKING GUN’ “Every Time Netanyahu Showed Flexibility, Obama Made More Demands” – Very insightful Yated interview with Michael Oren Two Sh’or Yoshuv Talmidim Beaten By Thugs in...
