In the aftermath of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s death in 1994, it seemed that there were many within the Lubavitcher movement who were moving in dangerous…
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“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.…A time to be born, and a time to die; a…
When Efraim Zuroff’s book, The Response of Orthodox Jewry in the United States to the Holocaust: the Activities of the Vaad Ha-hatzala Rescue Committee, 1939-1945,…
After the required aliyot are read, Kaddish is recited and the maftir is called up to the Torah. Several verses of the previous aliyah are…
The season of the cluttered mailbox is upon us. Invitations to the annual banquets of the Jewish federations, synagogue bodies, yeshivot and seminaries all compete…
In Part I of this essay (see Winter 5762/2001), we considered two, relatively academic matters of the yeshivah curriculum as the most immediate questions to…
On the first night of Rosh Hashanah, the meal begins with challah dipped in honey to symbolize sweetness, abundance and the hope for a sweet…
Consider this a draft notice from the IDF. Your home computer has been called up in defense of the Jewish State. Relax. Do not expect…
A few days after the publication of The Life and Times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, I found a very respected Torah scholar at my…
Their appearance gives them away: The boys typically have spiky or long hair; the girls have multiple body piercings and hair colored in unnatural hues.…
