Reviews in Brief
In Search of Torah Wisdom: Questions You Forgot to Ask Your Rebbi By Rabbi Yisroel Miller Mosaica Press Brooklyn, 2012…
The Sages, Vol. 3: The Galilean Period By Rabbi Binyamin Lau Maggid Books Jerusalem, 2013 420 pages Rabbis are just…
Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is perhaps the leading contemporary spokesman for a sophisticated Orthodox Judaism.
Some philanthropists do wonderful things by writing large checks to worthy causes. Harry Fischel did much more than that, and…
Rabbi Yitzchak Abarbanel (Abravanel) lived at the end of the time of the Spanish Rishonim and his books reflect his…
The life story of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, is interesting enough on its own, but when told by…
Professor Benny Kraut’s delightful history of the Yavneh student organization shows how college students can and have permanently altered the…
Rabbi David Hartman was once a leading student of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik but his intellectual path has long since…
A rabbi’s contribution to the extensive minyan hamitzvot literature, books that count and explain the Torah’s 613 commandments, serves as…
The Eastern European shtetl, for which we often wax nostalgic, began its decline in the mid-nineteenth century as the combination…
The halachic issues surrounding organ donation and brain stem death have hovered in constant conflict for over three decades.
