The First Klal Perspectives Shabbaton
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...
How to Disagree – My Exchange with Dr. Marc Shapiro
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...
Weekly Digest – News and Essays In and Out of Orthodoxy – Week of Parshas Terumah 5776
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...
Response to Dr. Marc Shapiro: Good Shot, but Wrong Target
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...
New Contributions By Kiruv Superstars
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,...
A Kotel Victory For the Non-Orthodox? Hardly
Asked for a statement about the Kotel compromise by the Los Angeles Jewish Journal, I complied. The Journal is hardly the reading experience of choice in the Orthodox community; my response was necessarily restrained....
The Professor Stumbles
You just can’t, as they say, make this stuff up. A performer recently made news by implying that 1) Holocaust denier David Irving deserves reconsideration, and 2) that the earth is flat. The entertainer...
The Western Wall Compromise – A Small Bit of Clarity in the Dark
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck… Whereas heterodox and a few left-edge Orthodox leaders have hailed the Israeli government’s decision to create an expanded official area for non-Orthodox prayer along...
Western Walls
Many are celebrating the official setting aside and expansion of a part of the Kotel Maaravi for non-traditional public prayer. I’m not among them. My thoughts on the matter are in the Forward today....
Weekly Digest – News and Essays In and Out of Orthodoxy – Week of Parshas Mishpatim 5776
(Featured photo of Rav Belsky zt”l in action at OU Headquarters for his weekly p’sak session, bedazzling captivated listeners with his Torah, wit and genius. Photo credit: Rabbi Eliyahu Ferrell) Rabbi Chaim Yisroel Belsky...