The Talmud depicts the yetzer hara (temptation to sin) as an external agent and tells us that its tactics are very insidious. It does not…
Spring 1999(5759)
The Erosion of Values
During my career as a surgeon, one of the numerous societies that I belonged to was the International Society of University Colon and Rectal Surgeons.…
Last spring the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture asked me to author a paper addressing intra-Jewish tensions. Dr. Mandell Ganchrow’s column [“Orthodoxy Looking Inward”] in…
Every schoolchild knows the famous midrash that when God came to give the Torah, all the mountains put forth their claims – this one pointing…
Regardless of Klal Yisrael’s inability to participate in Shalosh Regalim Temple offerings in Jerusalem in modern times, one American couple has made it their business…
Every Pesach, most of my friends and family embrace matzoh as though it were manna, using it at every opportunity and at every meal. I,…
It is the winter of 1941, but even the bitterness of the harsh Polish winter is dwarfed by the cold, hard vise of the Nazi…
The Internet can be a curious measure of the spiritual standing of Klal Yisrael.
The unforgettable Ponevezher Rav, Rabbi Yosef Kahanneman, z”l, once remarked that the frigid mikveh waters of Europe in which the Jewish mothers immersed gave their…
In recent years, it has become clear to many scientists that the universe appears as if it were specifically designed for the existence and well-being…
