Hard Truths about Hard Liquor

Rabbi Chaim Segal, zt”l, the veteran menahel of Mesivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin, is said to have once asked the rosh yeshivah, Rav Yitzchak Hutner, zt”l,…

Although the phrase Am Hanivchar, the Chosen People, says an enormous amount about the relationship between God and the Jewish people, it leaves even more…

Twenty years ago, standing on the wet, beautifully tended grass at the Babi Yar ravine, I imagined that I understood Jewish history. I believed it…

The doctrine of am hanivchar—the election or chosenness of Israel—has been glorified and condemned, but mostly misunderstood, for the greater part of our history. Some…

Bechirat Yisrael, the unique kedushah bestowed upon Am Yisrael by Hakadosh Baruch Hu, is not only an important theological issue worthy of our attention, but,…

I found the premise of Rabbi Reuven Spolter’s article, “In Search of Leaders,” (spring 2004) distressing. To be so concerned that the future of Modern…

Here is an eclectic group of nutritious and easy-to-prepare recipes that I hope will appeal to different palates.

“When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” These words, placed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the mouth of…

The most startling finding of the 2001 National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS) was not the intermarriage rate—which has remained stable in the last decade—but the…