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My Son Works
After a recent speech on chinuch banim (child-rearing) in Lawrence, someone approached me and asked, “Your children are all matzliach, all in learning?” I suppose I could have let slide the implied assumption of...
Sharing Israel’s Best
Around this time each year, dozens of cities host “Honor Israel” nights, in which Christian friends of Israel gather to show their support for Israel and the Jewish people. The folks in Grand Rapids,...
Segulot and Yeshuot
by Dovid Landesman Many of us, based on personal conversations as well as perusal of various blogs, seem to share discomfort when confronted with yet another advertising campaign by Kuppat ha-Ir and its fellow...
Rabbi Yanky Horowitz’s Welcome Contribution
In the closing years of the Evil Empire, I accompanied a group of high-school seniors to Moscow and Leningrad, essentially to smuggle in sefarim, jeans, and cameras through which to sustain families of refuseniks...
Better Than Sunscreen
“Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.”...
Telshe, Bin Laden, and the Congo
My day job in Jewish advocacy makes it easier for me than for most to implement the Hirschian ideal of bringing Torah to every profession, every occupation, every nook and cranny of the globe....
Where Rav Shlomo Zalman Found Kivrei Tzadikim
From Chief Rabbi Lau’s book, Light of the World (Oro shel Olam), page 380: A student in the Kol Torah Yeshiva in Jerusalem, approached his Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt”l and asked...
Wisdom From a Miner
I met Luis Urzua today. Luis was the shift foreman of the trapped Chilean miners, and widely credited for maintaining the unity of the group through their ordeal. Several of us remarked to him...