Top Ten Quotes About Madoff
Well, not quite ten. So we’ll start closer to the top. What follows are some comments from around the Jewish world that struck me as particularly powerful and telling. They are presented with very...
Rav Yehoshua Leiman z”l
Last weekend, in which the parshah we read referenced an eshkol anavim, Klal Yisrael lost an ish ha-eshkolos. Rav Yehoshua Leiman z”l was niftar after a long struggle with illness. Separated as we were...
Thoughts on the Madoff Debacle
No, he’s not Orthodox. More on that later. Within a handful of hours after the story broke, the Nazi sites spun it as predicted. Cretins that they are (and therefore understanding nothing about where...
The Bush I Know
(By Noam Neusner, who was a speechwriter and Jewish liaison for President Bush from 2002-2005.) President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush will watch Monday night as the grandsons of Harry Truman and David...
Colour Among The Black Hats?
The students of a prominent Eastern-European rabbi were about to join him to light the Chanukah lamp. The rabbi noticed a broom near the window next to his Menorah and asked for it to...
Times of Opportunity
[Rabbi Ilan Feldman is the rav of Cong. Beth Jacob in Atlanta, and a member of the Board of AJOP] The challenges of battle come at combatants fast and furiously, and can never be...
Living with Fear
Not for seventy years have the magnitude and multitude of threats hovering over the heads of world Jewry equaled those of the present. A few weeks ago, Rav Shalom Yosef Elyashiv reportedly told Rabbi...
Afterword to Another Terror Attack
Several of the Chabad spokespeople around the globe kept emphasizing that somehow, the darkness would yield to even greater light. One example of the light of kiddush Hashem that can flow from the horror...
Chabad in Mumbai, Viewed from Israel
5 b Kislev. Today the funerals were held for the kedoshim murdered in Mumbai. I happen to be staying at the Jerusalem home of my brother who is very active in Chabad. We came...
Remarks at a Community Gathering For the Kedoshim
[Rabbi Marvin Hier, Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, delivered these remarks to a community gathering at the Chabad center in Westwood, Los Angeles. The gathering drew not only Jews, but the Mayor, politicians,...