Yisro, Pablo Escobar, and A Coming Wave of New Converts
What do modern-day conversion and Yisro have in common? Not so much, according to the people I know. Records kept over many years by the beis din on which I sit (the RCC, in...
Cross-Currents Blog
Hubris Heights
Three years ago, geneticists Drs. Stephen Friend, Eric Schadt and Jason Bobe set out to search international databases for people who were over 30 and healthy but who carried mutations that typically cause childhood...
The Last Thing We Need is a Degenerated and Compromised Orthodoxy: A Response to R. Yitz Greenberg
It’s hard to take the article seriously, due to its vast misunderstanding of what Orthodox Judaism should be as well as the article’s quite erroneous general assumptions, but something needs to be said in...
Weekly Digest – News and Essays In and Out of Orthodoxy – Parshas Acharei Mos 5776
Harav Yaakov Thumim, Altshtadter Rav, zt”l Jerusalem Post Editorial: Everyone’s Rabbi CHAMETZ SHEAVAR ALAV HAPESACH: THE SUPERMARKET CONTROVERSY How my grandmother’s chutzpah helped Sugihara rescue thousands of Jews American Jewry Will No Longer Be...
Cheerios Vindicate Ashkenazim!
The custom of avoiding kitniyos (legumes – and others!) on Pesach survived a rocky start, and the smirks of our Sephardic brothers and sisters. Survive it did, and never have so many been so...
Weekly Digest – News and Essays In and Out of Orthodoxy – Chol Ha-Moed Pesach 5776
Rabbi Aaron Stefansky z”l Watch: Early Lakewood Cheder Memories by Rabbi Aron Stefansky z”l How I Survived a Humvee Explosion in Iraq Beis Yitzchak Volume 57 – Just published Passover at Disney World? Why some Jews...
Liberation Theology
In the summer of 1776, Benjamin Franklin proposed that the Great Seal of the United States should depict Moshe Rabbeinu at the Yam Suf, his staff lifted high and the Mitzriyim drowning in the...
Preparing for Pesach Again – Thank God
As we head into the final stretches of Pesach preparation, we anticipate the tension increasing: so much to do, so little time to do it, and to squeeze it all into very set time frames –...
Rabbi Pruzansky, JOFA, And Free Speech
JOFA’s distortions of Rabbi Pruzansky’s words, and attempts to silence him, draw upon tactics reminiscent of the Soviet era.
Elliot Abrams Wants You To Invite Bernie To Your Seder
We get so caught up in the details of the seder that we can lose sight of its broader importance. When we gather bezras Hashem this Friday night, we will all orchestrate different types...
