JA Staff
Off the Derech: Why Observant Jews Leave Judaism
Off the Derech: Why Observant Jews Leave Judaism By Faranak Margolese Devora Publishing Jerusalem, 2005 429 pages Reviewed by Hillel Goldberg In the decades after World War II, with the…
Religious Zionism- What’s Next? A Symposium
Avi and Peter Abelow Rachel Saperstein, now a resident of the Jerusalem Gold Hotel, is a friend of ours who lived in Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip for over…
Letters
Tackling the Tuition Crisis It is nice to see the Orthodox Union finally address the American frum community’s inability to sustain itself in its present state. Judaism here has quickly…
Counterpoint: Portraying the Rav
From time to time, articles and symposia appear in Jewish Action and other periodicals about the value of higher secular knowledge and its consonance with Torah. Oft, Rav Yosef Dov…
The Scarf
After the Seder, on the way home from my aunt’s house, I stumble. It is not sleep that causes me to fall over my feet, nor the four cups of…
On Rav Kook’s 70th Yahrtzeit: Rabbi Kook’s Vision—Timely or Premature?
Rav Kook was acutely aware of the danger threatening the Zionist vision if brought to fruition on the waves of a secular nationalist ideology.
A Nobel Laureate’s Chiddushei Torah
Professor Aumann has made a number of seminal contributions to game theory, any one of which might have been worthy of a Nobel Prize.