Pesach Machshava Shiur Now Available
With thanks to those who arranged and attended the shiur today, it is now available for download. It is similar to the style of previous years, with mostly new content from the Chasam Sofer,...
Talk is Cheap: Be Quick to Heal, Not to Judge
by Rabbi Eliyahu Safran With speech comes the power to raise up and to bring down, to pray to God and to demean others. Speech is also easy and, too often, used thoughtlessly or,...
Weekly Digest – News and Essays In and Out of Orthodoxy – Week of Parshas Metzora 5776
Rav Chaim Yosef Goldberg zt”l 71 Years Later, Dachau Victim’s Remains Are Brought to Rest in St. Louis OU KOSHER PRE-PASSOVER WEBINAR 2016 Orthodox Union Rejects Sen. Sanders’ Statements about Israel Bernie Sanders: A...
Better Than Your Grandmother’s Lashon Hora
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” may generally be sound advice, but it happily has been ignored in regard to classic Torah works. The last decades have seen a steady stream of improvements...
And the Winner Is…
“Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser,” the famous, and famously blunt, General George S. Patton declared in a 1944 speech. “When you were kids,” he explained, “you all admired the...
Chevron Yeshiva Plots Takeover of Israel Supreme Court; Bagatz Strikes Back
You’ve got to watch out for those haredim. They are going to take over the Jewish world, if you don’t stop them. We’ve just learned of another stealth target of theirs – Israel’s...
When In Rome, Do as Abaya and Rava Do
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....
Weekly Digest – News and Essays In and Out of Orthodoxy – Week of Parshas Sazri’a 5776
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...
A Belated Look at the Klal Perspectives Shabbaton
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...
The Biblical Museum of Natural History
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...