Rabbi Moshe Matz sent the following letter: Dear Friends, This year we saw powerful storms that wrought havoc across the country. Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and then Hurricane Rita followed, once again...
Rabbi Aharon Kotler once told his friend Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman, Rosh Yeshiva of Ner Israel Rabbinical College, “I only envy you one thing: Rabbi Neuberger.” Reb Aharon was referring to Rabbi Naftoli Neuberger,...
Harry Miers?! Relax, I’ll explain myself in due course. But first, Yaakov Menken is right on the mark — David Forman isn’t just another garden-variety Reform clergyperson. He is a former director of the...
The Great Lulav Scare of 5766 has passed. In the end, it appears that there were more or less lulavim for everyone. On Erev Succos, lulavim were in plentiful supply in Flatbush, and at...
Several weeks ago, Rabbi Feldman wrote concerning a flyer published by a Jerusalem shopping mall. The flyer contained an article about the then-upcoming fast of Yom Kippur, and provided several tips in order to...
Two completely unrelated items – one serious, one humorous – about people getting their facts wrong. For quite a while, the key narrative in the parsha (Torah reading) we just finished has been the...
Jack Wertheimer has issued another one of his periodic jeremiads on the state of mainstream American Jewry in the October Commentary (“Jews and the Jewish Birthrate). In recent years, Wertheimer has emerged as one...
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.
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...
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...