Tisha B’Av – Back to Reality
Tisha B’Av is an extremely serious and somber day. It is also a day that we may hope to quickly move past and readily leave behind, as we continue with our summer plans and...
He Never Promised Us A Rose Garden
Tisha B’Av may not be anyone’s favorite, but it may be just what the Good Doctor ordered to treat a very modern malady. Jewish calendar events, we are told[1], are never commemoratives. We don’t...
Responding to Loss with Leadership: The Nesivos Shalom on the Holocaust
by Tzipora Weinberg (Note: All translations are newly rendered from the writings of the Nesivos Shalom zatzal in Lashon Hakodesh, with hope that they are faithful to the original.) Who hasn’t heard of the...
News and Essays In and Out of Orthodoxy – Parshas Devarim 5776
Hagaon Harav Moshe Mordechai Chadash, Zt”l, Rosh Yeshivah, Yeshivas Ohr Elchanan Hagaon Rav Aryeh Finkel zt”l Rebbetzin Shoshana Schechter, A”h, Wife of Chaim Berlin Rosh Yeshiva Rav Aharon Shechter, Shlita Rav Shmuel Naftali Ganger...
Radio Interview on Headlines With R. Dovid Lichtenstein
Please click here to listen to an extensive interview with Rabbi Asher Lopatin, president of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, as he discusses the school and the movement it represents. (I was interviewed during the last...
How An Adam Gadol Approaches Tisha B’Av
The Nesivos Shalom in his first piece on the Three Weeks demonstrates how Tisha B’Av is ironically the most important day of the year in rebuilding the Beis HaMikdosh, not just mourning its loss....
Rabbi Slifkin: Not Every Diyuk is a Diyuk
In this week’s installment of News and Essays In and Out of Orthodoxy, I cited a few current news articles about the growth of Lakewood and issues related to it, and I made an observation:...
News and Essays In and Out of Orthodoxy – Parshas Matos-Masei 5776
The Final Moments of the Life of Rav Elchonon Wasserman Hy”d: Eyewitness Accounts An Open Letter From A Son Rav Moshe Mordechai Chodosh Hospitalized Again Chacham Yom Tov Yedid, Zt”l, Eldest Syrian Rav in...
Trump and the Jewish Question
“The anti-Semitism that is threaded throughout the Republican Party of late goes straight to the feet of Donald Trump.” That, according to Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, erstwhile chair of the Democratic National Committee....
Response from YCT: Yeshivat Chovevei Torah’s Position on Torah MiSinai and Partnership Minyanim
It was only a matter of time until YCT issued a response to the open letter of 11 of its graduates (please also see here), in which these graduates affirmed their belief in Torah...