Some outsiders regard the Orthodox Jewish world as monolithic, but those of us within the community know well that quite the opposite is the case. Few religious communities are as diverse. The Orthodox universe...

The “steamroller,” we all know, was steamrolled. Although those whom Eliot Spitzer focused on flattening were New York State wrongdoers, he ended up being mangled by misdeeds of his own. And thereby became an...

The Torah community of Eretz Yisrael achieved a brief moment of unity this past week. Unfortunately, it took the tragic slaughter of eight young yeshiva students at Yeshivat Mercaz Harav to bring it about....

by Rabbi Elchonon Oberstein Pirkei Avos Chapter one, mishna 11 teaches us “Avtalyon says: Scholars, be cautious with your words, for you may incur the penalty of exile and be banished to a place...

[YA – I do not have any easy way of verifying this as journalists are wont to do. I’ve received it in email form from diverse sources in the last few days. It is...

With time, those with open eyes come to recognize that life is peppered with strange, small ironies – “coincidences” that others don’t even notice, or unthinkingly dismiss. The famous psychiatrist Carl Jung puzzled over...

Even though almost a week has passed, the horror of the terrorist attack at Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav still lingers in my broken heart. The stories. The names. The pictures. It’s all just too much...

by Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman, Kehillas Ahavas Yisrael, Passaic NJ As many of you remember, I have spent many a happy moment in the court of the Rebbe of Belz Shlita. Indeed, I once...

To my dear friends and family, Daniel and I just got back from paying a shiva call to the family of Segev Avichayil, the young boy murdered in the terrorist attack Thursday night. I...

For decades, Rabbi Marvin Schick has been the bulldog of Gedolei Torah in the English-language world. More than anyone else I can think of, Rabbi Schick’s columns presented the leadership of Torah luminaries in...