Is It Better to Fast?
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...
Getting It Wrong
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...
American Jewry Finds its Scourge
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...
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...