Yesterday, various LGBTQ groups marched against Yeshiva University, arguing that the school and its administration need to be more welcoming and open to LGBTQ students and gay concerns and interests. Included in the demands...
In the absence of the authority to change the law (Halacha), I have no choice but to choose against (following) it. In a clash between humanity and halakha, opt for humanity, and have enough...
Yishai Ribo’s evocation of the Avodah[1] of Yom Kippur stirs hearts and moves to tears. It has gone viral here in Israel; I’m told that the same is happening in the US. (One of...
Hoisted by its own petard, The New York Times cried foul. Please forgive the clichés, but they’re really most apt. Let’s start with the paper of record’s wail of indignation. It came last week...
So accustomed are we to incarceration as punishment that it’s easy to forget that punitive confinement is entirely absent from the Jewish mesorah. To be sure, the Torah allows for – and even describes...
With the exception of replying to a few Times of Israel blog articles, I have not written much lately about the issues of the day. The main reason for this is total lack of...
Our own Dr. Marvin Schick has published an article that should be read by all Orthodox Jews, all consumers of parochial education of all faiths, and all Americans who are suspicious of government designs...
In Women in tents (and maybe in pictures), Mrs. Sarah C. Rudolph critiques my recent blog post reply to Mrs. Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll’s The Rotten State of Orthodoxy. Here is my response to Mrs....
I was a bit surprised to read an Orthodox doctor’s assessment and recommendation for the Orthodox community regarding vaccinations, in Times of Israel. Here is my response, posted in Times of Israel as well....
Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s ill-timed tweet proved again that not everything that is thought should be said, and not everything that is said should be published/tweeted. Tyson thought he was being helpful when he pointed...
