The Last Word: The Master Knocks
by Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie “The day is short, the work is great, the workers are lazy, but the reward is great, and the master of the house is knocking [at your door].” Pirkei Avos...
Don’t Chop Down the Trees, We Need the Forest – We Need Chabad
I really misfired. My intentions were sincere, they were directed to constructive critique and they were, in my opinion, expressed quite gently and respectfully – yet they were not helpful in the overall scheme...
Weekly Digest – News and Essays In and Out of Orthodoxy – Parshas Behar 5776
US House protects shechita and brit as religious freedoms A Shiur Like None Other Watch: Chief Rabbi Rav Yitzchok Yosef’s Critique of Those Who Think It Is a Mitzvah to Visit Meron Thousands Mourn...
The Realignment of American Jewry
by Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie If only traditional Judaism would lower its standards, become more open minded, there would be a Jewish renaissance. That is the assertion of Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, in a recent article...
Visitation Rites
The saintly aura that has enveloped Ronald Reagan in the minds of many who consider themselves social conservatives and independent thinkers – and I count myself among them; and I voted for Reagan in...
Tikvah Yeshiva Program For Men – Now Accepting Applications
Tikvah for bnei Torah is back for a third year, which we hope will constitute a chazakah. A bein ha-zemanim residence program by application, it is designed for the student with serious yeshiva background...
What I Learned at the Ulmer Institute Inaugural
I have known Rev. Ken Ulmer for some time, and I am not the only Orthodox Jew to have had the privilege. Bishop Ulmer, as he is known, heads up a huge black megachurch...
Modern Orthodoxy Derailed – Time to Return to the Station
The train has derailed, but no one knows why. Far too much time and effort have been invested trying to hoist the railcars back up and onto the tracks, but it is not really...
Weekly Digest – News and Essays In and Out of Orthodoxy – Parshas Emor 5776
Chief Rabbi: Could we sit and study Torah without soldiers? US Religious Zionists Fought in ’48 War Opinion: Yom Hazikaron – Thoughts On The Ultimate Sacrifice The Knock on the Door The Rabbi and...
Ferry Tale
Sitting among other commuters in the cavernous terminal, waiting for the next ferry from Staten Island to Manhattan, I sensed some commotion in my periphery. Looking up from my reading, I saw a 40-ish...