“Those who trust in the Lord shall be like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever” (Psalms 125:1). Dr. Ari Zivotofsky’s well-presented article…
Summer 2007(5767)
Sumptuous Summer Fare
On the Arts I read with dismay “Confessions of a Hollywood Dropout” by Rick Magder (winter 2006). The Chareidi world regularly and proudly showcases new…
If you can’t find the old sefer you are looking for at your local beit midrash, try Starbucks. Actually, it doesn’t have to be Starbucks,…
Grandfather’s passing was a whisper— a final billowing and undulating sigh that drew over our heads curled in our nostrils heady and suffocating mist of…
Misconception: King David is buried on Mount Zion, in a room that bears the inscription “King David’s Tomb.” Mount Zion is located just outside and…
The Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides’ Thirteen Principles Reappraised By Marc B. Shapiro The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Oxford, 2004 221 pages Even Shisiya…
Want to get a new perspective on being Jewish? Try living on a farm in Maine. I’ve been visiting an organic vegetable farm in the…
I may not be a typical Chareidi Jew (if there even is such an animal), but I’m a musmach of Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, have…
“David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six…
Excerpts from Rabbi Israel Meir Lau's remarkable autobiography, in which he tells his story of rising from the ashes of the Holocaust to become the…
