A Chasidic View of Parnasah
transcribed and edited by Yaacov Dovid Shulman A Few Introductory Words The import of the following essay is that throughout Jewish history Torah learning has always been of preeminent important: “and you shall study...
Retroactive Prophecy
There exists a mentality, even among some who should know better, like the respected popular historian Rabbi Berel Wein, that any one of us can, and even should, second-guess the attitudes and decisions of...
The Assault on Free Speech Creeps Off Campus
Last week we catalogued the assault on free speech on campus in the form of speech codes and pervasive political correctness. The most common reason given for the speech codes by college administrators is...
Kabbolas HaTorah in Verse
First, from Cross-Currents own poet laureate, Rabbi Yossi Huttler: Sefirah (between the bookends) so now after recounting we count to the end of the account to where we chose and were Chosen we the...
Silence – Approaching Chumash Bamidbar
by Jeremy Rosen In my schooldays one of the favorite punishments of our teachers was to get the whole school, when it got too noisy or out of hand, to remain on silence, sitting...
A Different Kind of Shivyon BaNetel
And a different kind of charedi-Tzahal cooperation. Very moving.
Stranded on Torah Island
As we get closer to Shavuos, I thought it might be interesting to see the different ways our readers love Torah. According to some of the machshavah seforim, the mon of the Wilderness contained...
The Monsey “Summit” and the Courage to Confront
I had not intended to write about the meeting a week ago Sunday between a group of Jews who left observance, and another group taken from the traditional community. Originally, the participants had all...
Punishing American Learning in Israel
Besides the legal changes affecting the funding for the Yeshivos, the Religion Ministry under Bennet has a few tricks up its sleeve that we don’t even know about. I just spoke with a Rosh...
The End of the Begin-ing
by Doron Beckerman The year 1977 witnessed a watershed event in the history of Modern Israel. Chaim Yavin, famed Israeli news anchor, announced the mahapach – the transformation of the political map; the right...