It’s odd that, when Moshe Rabbeinu and Yehoshua transmit the shirah of Haazinu to the people, the Torah refers to Yehoshua as Hoshea (Devarim 32:44), his original name. Moshe, of course, had changed his...
Open Orthodoxy has just endorsed lesbian marriage and intimate relations. No, this is not a typo or exaggeration. Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, who was the first graduate of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT) and now serves...
As is the case with any question about nature, when a child asks why the sky is blue, the answer you give (here, that blue light is scattered more than other colors) will elicit...
Understood. This is what rabbis do. They will always come up with a connection between events of the week and the parshah. Trust me. That is not what this is about. I had earlier...
From its opening words through many of the parsha’s laws and instructions, Eretz Yisrael is central: Bikkurim, maasros, the settings-up of the Torah-inscribed stones, the brachos and klalos on Har Grizim and Har Eival. ...
I think it time that I step down from my role as co-editor of Cross-Currents, returning it to Rabbi Adlerstein’s full editorial supervision, given my other obligations.
Dear Michael, I’ll start with the least important point, to get it out of the way: Pas moi! Maybe check the last few pieces I posted before the one that gives you grief. You...
The ben sorer umoreh is judged al sheim sofo – because of where, on the evidence of the present, the youth’s life is headed. And his very existence, Chazal say, is the result of...
He strongly influenced the lives of thousands of talmidim and followers. They – and others like myself, who also gained from him – are in shock over his petirah. It occurred as we could...
In the U.S., offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting something of value in exchange for influencing a judge’s or other public official’s actions is illegal (U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 201). The Torah’s prohibition of...
