Rubashkin case gets new life and RUBASHKIN BOMBSHELL MOTION UNVEILS ‘SMOKING GUN’ “Every Time Netanyahu Showed Flexibility, Obama Made More Demands” – Very insightful Yated interview with Michael Oren Two Sh’or Yoshuv Talmidim Beaten By Thugs in...
Rav Soloveitchik zt”l on Purim – Audio Rav Hershel Schachter: Volunteering Mitzvos Rav Mordechai Willig: What Is (and Isn’t) the Rabbi’s Job? EXCLUSIVE: Letter from Rav Shalom Kamenetsky Confirms P’sak of Bais Din Led by...
Surprise is an oxymoron in Israel. The sheer delight of new discovery is totally predictable. And so it was in my just completed six days with the Museum of the Bible (MOTB) tour. Some...
Chief Rabbi: “It Is Proper To Eliminate Terrorists” The Dzikover Rebbe, Rav Yechezkel Eliyahu Horowitz zt”l The Nazi’s Table: A mother leaves Prague in a cattle car; her son returns as a Sabbath-observant, US ambassador....
I avoided it as much as possible. I found every excuse to delay it. I did not want more controversy. I did not want to make people feel uncomfortable, nor to have to field...
The Conservative movement has reached a point of no return in the USA. While its members reject opportunities for deeper involvement and are leaving, this is not the time for its inaptly named Israeli branch to demand recognition in that country.
Technical compliance, but attitudinal disagreement. As the Open Orthodox movement further develops its theology, it is increasingly evident that the above is a principal credo. One should comply with the letter of the Law,...
THE LEGACY OF RAV BELSKY, ZT’L Obergefell and the Jewish Community – Fantastic essay by Rabbi Pruzansky American Orthodox Jews will miss Scalia, their great defender The Passing of Justice Scalia . . ....
“Secular Orthodox.” That’s how Avinoam Bar-Yosef, president of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, recently characterized many Israelis. What he meant was that, while an Israeli may not be observant of halachah, or even...
Yesterday was tense. It was uncomfortable. It was a day of squeezing in a lengthy reply to Dr. Marc Shapiro’s post about some of my writings, between loads of regular work and with almost no...
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