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[Rav Reines] firmly adhered to the belief that religious Jews could cooperate with “free-thinkers” for the purpose of settling European…
Mazal Tov! Methuselah is a father. At the age of ten (plus 2,000!), perhaps the oldest tree to be germinated…
Since the passing of Moreinu v’Rabbeinu HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein, zt”l, many people have asked me, “Did you know him well?…
“The voice of the Lord is strength (koach), the voice of the Lord is splendor (hadar)” (Psalms 29:6). Commenting on…
He entered the room with my stomach in knots; the numerous stories about the famous “Gush bechinah” (entrance exam) caused…
What is the legacy of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein? Only too soon, the answer, I fear, will be: It depends on…
How might one describe Rav Aharon Lichtenstein? A brilliant Torah scholar. A pedagogue beyond compare. One who possessed extraordinary piety,…
In one of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein’s masterful discussions on the value of general culture for the development of a Torah…
When asked what he had learned at Harvard, Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, zt”l, answered that there he grasped the complexity of…
Sitting next to his sixteen-year-old daughter, Shayna, in his flood-damaged house in Houston’s Willow Meadows neighborhood, Rick Guttman recalls a…
The Land of Israel is a “lovely, good and expansive land” (Birkat Hamazon). The new observation deck, Mitzpor HaElef in…
