Recovered From COVID-19? Save a Life!
The word is travelling across the US about the thousands of Chassidic Jews, recovered from COVID-19, who are lining up to become blood plasma donors, so that the precious antibodies in their serum can...
My Four-Page Prize Possession
An article I wrote about my relationship with the Novominsker Rebbe, zt”l, can be read at the Forward here.
Two Upbeat Thoughts Before Pesach
How I wish I were one of those musicians who have done such a beautiful job, lifting the spirits of our beleaguered people! Alas, there is only one instrument I can play, with a...
Prof. Mark Steiner, z”l
One of the gems lost to Klal Yisrael during this plague was Prof. Mark Steiner, who was niftar yesterday. The first notices and appreciations focused on his important contributions to the philosophy of mathematics...
The Media’s Obsession With Haredi Wrongdoing
An article I wrote for the Forward about the media’s obsession with Haredim who flout norms, and what it shows — about the media, not Haredim — is here.
Locusts, the Holocaust and Today
The 17-year locusts, as many call them, won’t be singing their deafening song this spring on the East Coast. The particular brood (there are several) that we easterners are familiar with, though, is expected...
The Mashgiach on Solitude
by Rabbi Shaya Karlinsky We are experiencing an unprecedented disruption of the normal functioning of the entire world. Many people have tried to explain the message Hashem is sending us, encouraging us to be...
Thank You
To all the selfless doctors, nurses and hospital workers who have been working tirelessly and heroically throughout the current crisis… To all the government officials, police, fire fighters, emergency personnel, mail carriers, sanitation workers...
Got Mitzvos?
Got Mitzvos? We’ve done our best to find substitutes, to whatever extent possible, for our routines of davening and learning. Leyl seder, though, is going to be a hard one. We’re resigned to a...
All Shabbos, All the Time
This crisis gives us Shabbat all week long. We are home, with our spouses, our children. We spend time trying to work remotely but then we have to get back to real work… We have to deal with our family.