Over the five years of my presidency, I have had the opportunity to visit approximately 45 American cities, most often to spend Shabbat as a…
Spring 2000 (5760)
In Search of the Elusive Chupah
by Rabbi Shlomo Jakobovits The headlines and captions of the world’s press summed it up in a few phrases. The Jerusalem Post headline read: “A…
Chances are that many readers of Jewish Action have visited the beautiful Ein Gedi Nature Reserve at least once. Go one more time! But this…
Parnas L’Doro contains Prins’ correspondence with the great scholars of his day; Parnas L’Dorot contains his notes and comments on a vast range of sefarim…
So what’s new in this slender volume, or, if we’re to take the subtitle’s word for it, what is this “fresh look at tzniut?” It…
There Once Was a World has been 19 years in preparation. A book of over 800 pages, it was lovingly written by one of the…
Talk about tobacco is heating up again. Is smoking, and hence marketing and distributing tobacco products, prohibited by Jewish law? If not halachically prohibited, do…
Yom Kippur War Doctor The article dealing with the doctor’s experiences during the Yom Kippur War was superb. It touched the hearts of Jewish Action…
What if "The Three Little Pigs" is really a hidden Jewish parable on our exile, assimilation and redemption?
