Our Guides
CrossCurrents has teamed up with Cross-Currents to provide the best professional outfitters, guides, and scholars Montana and the Torah world have to offer. We endorse guides that are skilled anglers and excellent teachers. Whether...
Disagreeing Without Going Bonkers
Last week, after posting my brief counterpoint article about frum media publishing photos of women, I received what was nothing short of a firestorm — a barrage of condescending, reprimanding and nasty e-mails, in addition to the severely strident comments...
Clear Lens, Clear Image
I hadn’t planned to awaken at 3 a.m. on Wednesday night, even though it was the peak time for catching sight of meteors – commonly called “shooting stars” – born of the earth’s yearly...
Rav Dovid Landesman, z”l
With profound sadness I share with the Cross-Currents community news of the untimely petirah, today, erev Shabbos, of Rav Dovid Landesman, z”l. R. Landesman was a veteran mechanech and author on several continents. Cross-Currents...
Will the Real Modern Orthodoxy Please Stand Up?
Rabbi Ysoscher Katz’ feisty assailment of Rabbi Dr. David Berger’s July 2nd reply to Rabbis Avi Weiss and Asher Lopatin – both in Jewish Link of New Jersey – is nothing short of startling....
What Happens When You Mix Yeshiva Guys With Oxford?
It was not the deepest moment at the Tikvah Institue for Yeshiva Men, but it may have been the most revelatory. Roger Scruton, one of the most significant public intellectuals in the UK and...
The Magical Disappearing Woman
It is always good when Cross-Currents reflects a diversity of opinions. I am, though, as troubled as Rabbi Gordimer by this discussion of, and condemnation of, a “trend” to “deny the existence” of women....
Double Take of a Photo Op – Pictures of Women in Orthodox Publications
If you are looking to avoid controversy, Cross-Currents is not the place for you. Continuing a recent trend of respectful internal dissent, I would like to comment ever so briefly on the issue of...
Be Alarmed
Back in 2007, at just about this exact time of year, a priest in the Netherlands city of Tilburg was fined the equivalent of several thousand dollars for ringing his church’s bells early each...
Effacing Women
Could be that I have used the verb in an improper manner. But it can’t be even remotely as improper as the phenomenon itself. I haven’t seen any really good treatments of the hugely...