I consider myself to be fairly well plugged into twenty-first-century technology. I have a BlackBerry; own several desktop computers and a laptop and use Bluetooth technology in my car. Remarkably,…
In 1919, a wave of anti-Semitic pogroms, led by Polish peasants and soldiers, took place in Jewish towns throughout Western Galicia. A New York Times article, dated May 23, 1919,…
Judaism is an optimistic religion. While Jewish history is replete with exiles, pogroms and destruction, it is also rich with triumph, victory and redemption. As a people, we have exhibited…
While more and more dailies throughout the country are shutting down, new frum publications keep cropping up, it seems, every few months. Unquestionably, the proliferation of Orthodox print media is…
Back in the 60s when I attended yeshivah, the challenges facing Jewish education were formidable. The students tended to be first generation Americans; the rebbeim were Yiddish-speaking survivors. Understandably, there…
In the latter part of the twentieth century, American Jewry witnessed a fascinating phenomenon: the teshuvah movement. Suddenly, there were hundreds of ba’alei teshuvah—returnees to Judaism—Jews who abandoned their secular…
One of the challenges of contemporary life is the treadmill we often unwittingly find ourselves on. The tempo of modern life simply does not allow time for reflection, for introspection,…
It’s no secret that we live in troubling, turbulent times. Anti-Semitism is growing worldwide, the threat of a nuclear disaster is becoming more and more of a reality and, to…
