Opinion
Jews were, in John Murray Cuddihy’s phrase, “latecomers to modernity.” Throughout Europe in the nineteenth century they found themselves suddenly…
Judaism teaches that spirituality is pursued in public as well as private realms. The “future of American Orthodoxy” will, thus,…
In the closing session of a semester-long course on the Megillot, I challenged my class to respond to excerpts from…
Short of the coming of the Messiah, this has to be one of the best times ever to be an…
What the Warren Commission said of the racial divide that separates black and white America, could be applied to the…
A generation ago, most “experts” agreed that American Orthodoxy was on the verge of extinction. At that time, the bulk…
Twenty years ago, Doron Witztum discontinued his advanced studies and work in Physics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in…
Not infrequently, people will say to me, "You know, I take the daily message in your Living Each Day quite…
I read with interest Dr. Richard Lopchinsky's essay in the Winter 5757 issue of Jewish Action, advocating a merger of…
Following the tragic assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin we were witness to two major outbursts of emotional responses.
