Letters
Are “Orthodox” and “creative” mutually exclusive? Is it an accident that three very prestigious awards were won in recent years…
Haim Sabato, who descends from a long line of rabbis from Aleppo, Syria, was born in Cairo, but was forced…
Cultural critics in Israel have been startled by an interesting phenomenon—exceptional creativity by observant Jews in areas that were once…
Art, most artists would argue, is often the most essential part of who they are. A banker or an accountant…
Shuli and Michal Bat-Sheva Rand don’t look like your typical movie stars. Sure, they recently starred in a groundbreaking Israeli…
In “The Childless Couple,” (spring 2005), Rebecca Wolf describes the agony of childlessness accurately—and yet ultimately misses the point. How…
I want to express my and my family’s deep sense of gratitude for the beautiful way the Orthodox Union has…
For many, these words represent a contradiction in terms. Despite the growing number of divorced families in the Jewish community,…
The unique relationship between God and the Jewish people is a basic principle that permeates the Bible and Talmud. We…
A palpable awkwardness almost inevitably obfuscates any discussion of our perceived identity as the “Am Segullah”1—usually rendered as God’s exclusive,…
Rabbi Chaim Segal, zt”l, the veteran menahel of Mesivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin, is said to have once asked the rosh…
