The first Yahrtzeit of my nephew, Aaron Elimelech ben Ben-Tzion Eliezer a”h, Aaron Rosenfeld, is quickly approaching. His parents, Elie and Debbie, have created a Memorial Fund with Chai Lifeline. The fund’s inauguration will...

No matter how you treat – or do not treat – Yom Hazikaron and Yom Haatzmaut, there is something in the story that follows that should tug at our heart strings. We should remember...

Since no one else posted, I will offer a few thoughts in the waning hours of a weekend spent mostly struggling to write a fair final for my law school students. Our reaction to,...

I suppose the fact that it’s a typically-hurried Erev Shabbos leaves me short on time and long on sarcasm, but… this is news? The above is the home page title of a JTA article...

It became a ritual, part of Shavuos morning in the Holy City. After learning all night, tens of thousands descended upon the Western Wall of the Holy Temple. The entire plaza was packed —...

Everyone has his or her pet theory by now about the root causes of the Boro Park “incident” a few weeks ago. Whether provoked or not provoked, whether there was large scale participation in...

by Jeff Jacoby Of the five candidates running to succeed Mitt Romney as governor of Massachusetts, all but one have chosen to send their children to private schools. Nothing wrong with that — millions...

There is more than one story in the Valis case, and I would like to add my own comments to what R’ Yakov Menken wrote. Story One, the death of an infant: The first...

A few weeks ago, a Chassid named Yisroel Valis was arrested in Israel and charged with murdering his infant son. Police claimed physical signs of injury, plus a confession from the father, proved his...

This is a story about faith meeting disloyalty. It has very little to do with Judas, though. For many centuries, the accepted New Testament account meant that Judas was a symbol of terrible things,...