The report you heard is true, according to multiple, reliable local sources with whom I checked. The Lakewood mashgiah Rav Mattisyahu Solomon, shlit”a, did term some of the solicitation techniques of Kupat Ha’ir as...
A few weeks ago, we posted a short piece on the remarkable career of Rabbi Theodore Lewis z”l. Rabbi Akiva Males of Harrisburg, PA pointed us to a later story with an anecdote too...
by Rabbi Heshy Grossman [Editors’ Note: As a follow-up to a recent discussion, Rabbi Grossman sent us this article, which presents the oft-misunderstood theoretical framework underlying the traditional Orthodox perspective on women and Talmud...
Over 45 years ago, Don Ritchie and his wife Moya purchased a house overlooking the Gap, the cliffs at Sydney Harbour. The Gap offers amazing views, and a tragic history – every year, about...
At first I wanted to blame the Jerusalem Post. The Post attached a pretty nefarious photo to David Newman’s oped “The yeshiva and the workplace” (October 26). The Post illustrated this upbeat article on...
They mourned when Shira Smiles traded the hills of Hollywood for the heights of Ramat Beit Shemesh, leaving behind a small army of ardent followers. They kept up the connection through a regular video...
The regularity with which we are granted new life each day dulls us, regrettably, to the indescribable import of the fact.
The signs in Meah Shearim, in both Hebrew and English, gave away the fact that there was a story here. The aron of “Rabbi Theodore Lewis (Uncle Teddy)” was being brought home. He was...
Unless you are on active duty with the United States military in Iraq, this fascinating video is the closest you are going to get for a while to the inside of Yechezkel’s tomb, venerated...
by Sara Yoheved Rigler I sat in the car, parked at the end of the trail, nervously waiting for my children. We usually did family hikes, but the Yehudiya, Israel’s most popular hike, is...