by Robert Lebovits In my professional world perception is reality. What individuals believe to be true forms the basis of their worldview and directs the choices they make. Consequently inaccurate perceptions can have profound...
Many of our readers, I’ve been told, turn to Cross-Currents for a balanced view on issues. They look here for commentary faithful to Torah values, free of extremism, and admitting to nuance. If we...
Dr. Schick has just demonstrated that even great thinkers make mistakes. In “When Homer Nodded,” Dr. Schick makes one major error and a number of smaller ones. His great faux-pas is in implying that...
There is no joy in Berkeley. Mighty Israel has struck out! As if Israel were not already in enough trouble with leftists, she had to really get under their skin. Leftists in Israel teach...
Groundless hatred cost us the beis ha-mikdosh, and cast us into a galus we have still not extricated ourselves from. This short YouTube, part of a film competition in Israel, might help get some...
There is a new kind of captive in the making, but do not expect to see any pidyon shvuyim effort on his or her behalf. This new prisoner is a sad by-product of the...
Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky once said at convention of Agudath Israel that but for the birth of the state of Israel most non-religious Jews would have fallen into such despair after the Holocaust that their...
The most surprising aspect of the current presidential race – to me at least — is not that Mitt Romney appears to be clawing his way into contention, after an extremely divisive Republican season,...
Given the irrational nature of much of the hatred directed at the chareidi community, it would be tempting to say that we bear no part of the responsibility for the state of frayed relations...
I do not offer the following thoughts to the members of the Plesner Committee in order to convince them of the wisdom of the current draft deferment for full-time yeshiva students. Life is short,...
