The Enemy
In December, 2014, after a driver shouting Islamic slogans mowed down more than a dozen pedestrians in Dijon, France, the city’s chief prosecutor called the attacks the work of an unbalanced man whose motivations...
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...
A Schism Within Open Orthodoxy?
These guys have guts. They took a principled stand, rejecting many of the messages emanating from Open Orthodox senior leadership, and they valiantly put their beliefs on the table, reaching out to the broad...
A Better Way to Allow Change in the Charedi World
When Yair Lapid introduced his measures to nudge the charedi community into the IDF and the work force a few years ago, Cross-Currents readers mixed it up with more gusto than Bernie Sanders supporters...
Rav Avrohom Powers, z”l
The death of an old friend always comes hard. The impact is lessened when the march of time long ago sent you in different directions. Why, then, did news of the petirah of Rav...
News and Essays In and Out of Orthodoxy – Parshas Pinchas 5776
Rav Shmuel Yerachmiel Kaufman zt”l, Legendary Mechanech of Detroit Rabbi Avrohom Powers z”l Freezer Survivor Known from Arizal’s Mikvah Passes Away An Italian doctor explains “Syndrome K,” the fake disease he invented to save...
Abortion Distortion
With the Democratic and Republican platforms offering more polarized planks on abortion than ever, the issue of “reproductive rights” is, once again, well, birthed into the glare. Also in the limelight of late are...