Audio Links for Eulogies of Rav Neuberger
The Eulogies of Rav Naftoli (Herman) Neuberger are available in MP3 format to listen now (stream) or download. The audio of the individual speakers is available through TorahMedia.
Eulogies for Rav Naftali (Herman) Neuberger zt”l
The hespedim, eulogies, for Rav Neuberger were delivered beginning at 8 pm this evening. HaRav Aharon Feldman shlit”a, Rosh HaYeshiva, was the first speaker. He began by speaking about the terrific help that Rav...
Positive Orthodoxy in the Associated Press
Saturday’s Washington Post carried an AP article, Orthodox Answers to Unusual Questions, on the religion page. While I couldn’t find it on the Washington Post site, CNN/Netscape has the same article. It discusses the...
Variations on a Theme by Dr. Schick
Without weighing in on the main question posed by Dr. Schick (Oct. 28), I will offer one observation, and pose another question. Dr Schick’s concern about airing dirty linen in public is – unfortunately...
Satmar v. Satmar
I have a question regarding the disgraceful goings-on within Satmar, including but not limited to the violence that occurred on Simchas Torah when the two rival factions desecrated G-D’s name in the main Satmar...
Sir Francis Crick, DNA, and ID
As YomTov arrived, I realized that I had heard “somewhere” about a prominent scientist who proposed the genetic seeding of Planet Earth, which is related to my previous post about Darwin vs. Design. With...
Go After the Majority
With the 150-year anniversary of The Origin of Species just a few years away, here’s a startling fact: most Americans don’t buy it. According to CBS News, 51% believe that G-d Created humans as...
Rabbi Naftoli Neuberger zt”l
Today was the levaya (funeral) of Rav Naftoli (Herman) Neuberger, the long time administrative head of Yeshivas Ner Israel of Baltimore. As the public representative of not only the yeshiva, but much of Baltimore’s...
The Yom Kippur Monopoly
Just before Yom Kippur, a popular Jerusalem shopping mall published a glossy magazine supplement advertising its latest glitzy fashion items, many of which are beyond modesty. In the centerfold of the magazine is a...
Merge the Movements?
David Forman, a Reform Rabbi living in Israel, argues in the Jerusalem Post that the Conservative and Reform movements in Israel should merge. The credits describe him merely as “a Reform rabbi [and] the...