In America, the law is pretty straightforward: if you submit a financial dispute to binding arbitration, it really doesn’t matter who the arbitrators are. We can submit a dispute to Larry, Moe and Curly,...
A few years ago, a television producer asked me to help locate interesting converts to Judaism for a documentary he was preparing for Israel TV. In the course of the project I met some...
Several days ago, an observant Jewish writer who identifies himself by the nom-de-plume “Jameel Rashid” wrote a post on his blog (which he calls “the Muqata“) concerning the above topic. He sent an email...
One of the joys of living in Israel for a Jew from Amerca is the way in which the rhythms of the Jewish calendar are felt in the public square. Almost all families sit...
Don’t be surprised. The same court system that has, for years, obstructed the city of Rechovot in its attempt to provide a home for Lev L’Achim and its Torah classes, now insists that the...
It’s a famous statement of the Torah: “G-d will wage war for you, and you shall remain silent.” [Exodus 14:14] We don’t always need to do the work ourselves; HaShem works for us. The...
“Better to go to a house of mourning than to a house of feasting,” (Ecclesiastes 7:2), said the wisest of men. Until my father’s recent passing, I had only experienced a house of mourning...
Our condolences to the family of Mrs. Jackie Wein, a”h, who passed away this week. She was the wife of Rabbi Berel Wein, whose classes are featured on Torah.org, and also the sister of...
by Michael Freund What a difference a few minutes can make. That thought must surely be running through the minds of dozens of parents and teenagers at the HaNativ HaYeshivati high school in Sderot,...
The following article was sent to Rabbi Adlerstein by a colleague or talmid (I’m not sure which), and, given that he’s out of the country, he sent it to me asking whether I wanted...