“Whanne he cam and was nyȝ þe hous, he herde a symphonie and oþer noise of mynstraleye.” In modern-day English, the sentence above—written in fourteenth-century…
Spring 2014 (5774)
Rabbi Dr. Yehuda Cooperman
By Zvi Volk Dozens of young wives wearing sheitels, middle-aged women sporting headscarves as well as women with no head coverings come together every Sunday…
By Martin Nachimson This year we celebrate a momentous occasion: the sixtieth anniversary of NCSY. To truly appreciate the enormous contribution NCSY has made to…
In the winter issue of your enlightening and thought-provoking magazine, you address the fact that Modern Orthodox schools are struggling to make tefillah meaningful (“Can…
Short & Sweet: Text Message Responsa of Ha-Rav Shlomo Aviner Shlit”a Rabbi Mordechai Tzion, trans. American Friends of Yeshivat Ateret Yerushalayim New Jersey, 2012 472 pages…
I was privileged to attend Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik’s shiur where I heard—more than once—the Rav describe the erev-Shabbos Jew in very beautiful language. Rabbi…
Well-known author, editor and motivational speaker Chava Willig Levy, a polio survivor, recently published a heartwarming memoir, A Life not with Standing. With humor and…
In 2003, my wife, daughter and I spent the summer in Israel. We had already made aliyah, but had temporarily moved back to the US.…
It was inspiring to see in the wake of the Pew Study’s disheartening news that Orthodoxy is planting new communities in places that have had…
I read with great interest the “Life Beyond New York” cover story in the winter 2013 issue. As a member of the Shomrei Torah Fair…
