Letters

Wanted: A Davening Coach Alan Krinsky’s article on davening properly (“Pray or Play?,” winter 2014) is wonderful. Too many of…

Minding Your Own Business I would like to offer high praise of the phenomenal work being done by EPI, highlighted…

Exercise for Torah Cardiologists Drs. Charles and Elie Traube write (“Becoming Heart Healthy” [fall 2014]) that far too many painful…

Revisiting Pew I take issue with the notion that the Pew report is an indictment of the Orthodox community, as…

Hebrew: The Great Debate In Rabbi Seth Mandel’s “The Real Story of Hebrew Pronunciation” (spring 2014), he writes, “As with…

In the winter issue of your enlightening and thought-provoking magazine, you address the fact that Modern Orthodox schools are struggling…

I was privileged to attend Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik’s shiur where  I heard—more than once—the Rav describe the erev-Shabbos Jew…

It was inspiring to see in the wake of the Pew Study’s disheartening news that Orthodoxy is planting new communities…

I read with great interest the “Life Beyond New York” cover story in the winter 2013 issue. As a member…

Kudos to Steve Lipman for his evocative retrospective on the long and distinguished career of Rabbi Dr. Isaiah Wohlgemuth at…

In “The Little-Known Story Behind the Latke” (winter 2013), author Carol Green Ungar claims that the earliest American Jewish cookbook,…