Two New Articles
Here are two new articles of mine: Should Leah Forster Be Allowed to Perform in a Kosher Restaurant? Rabbi Cardozo: Your Views Would Destroy Judaism
James G McDonald: Early Guardian of the Jewish State
A young Joseph B. Soloveitchik used to travel to Vilna to talk in learning with R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski. On one such visit, the future Rav Soloveitchik asked the gadol hador some halachic questions...
Hatred, Hatred Everywhere
Even before the Pittsburgh Massacre, Damon Joseph, 21, who lives in a suburb of Toledo, Ohio, hoped to go on a “virtual jihad.” The murders of 11 Jews at the end of October in...
Open Letter from Rav Brudny, Rav Bender and Rav Reisman on behalf of Torah Umesorah
י”א טבת, תשע”ט December 19, 2018 OPEN LETTER TO THE YESHIVA COMMUNITY We are grateful for the outcry of Klal Yisroel, protesting the new State guidelines. It is your chorus of concern that has...
UPDATE: The OU Reports On Negotiations With the NY Education Department
Teach NYS Confirms 3.5 Hour Daily Core Subject Requirement (Grades 7 and 8) In NYSED Enforcement Guidance To: Teach NYS Member Schools On November 20th, 2018, the New York State Education Department (NYSED) issued...
Refracted Light: What’s Wrong With Baalei Teshuvah?
Nothing. Except that they don’t believe it. The anxieties and doubts that they harbor about themselves can turn into huge problems down the line. Those problems are explored, together with other issues facing second-generation...
Don’t cry for me, Eric Yoffie
Enough decades have passed to allow some of us to recall biologist Paul R. Ehrlich’s 1968 bestseller “The Population Bomb,” in which the author, soberly analyzing relevant data, predicted worldwide famine within twenty years...
No, Chanukah Does Not Celebrate Pluralism!
Every year, we read articles portraying Chanukah as something that it is not. This year is no different, as such an article was prominently posted by Times of Israel as a featured blogpost. Here...
Eulogy for Amiad
[I could not find out the name of the author of this beautiful poem, but thought it more important to get it out while the wound is still fresh in all of us. It...
Hanukkah and the Soul
An opinion piece I wrote about Chanukah was published by the New York Times last week. It can be read here.