MISCONCEPTION:1 In 1925, in Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook’s invocation for the inauguration of the Hebrew University, he applied the Biblical verse “Ki miTzion tetzei…
Winter 2009(5770)
Yona Baumel, Man of Faith
In a typical month in the Houston area, members of the Jewish community study aspects of Jewish law and philosophy with kollel rabbis, Jewish residents…
In recent years, an increasing number of young rabbis have been moving to congregations that are quite a distance from major Jewish population centers. Settling…
Rabbi Glenn Black of Toronto believes in giving credit where credit is due. In exchange for high school credit,…
In recent years, there has been a steady and worrisome erosion in Jewish identity among many Israelis. This is especially true with regard to the…
Mention Edmonton, Alberta, and what comes to mind? The very name evokes a shiver, conjuring images of blizzards and bitter cold. Some may recall that…
On a recent Friday afternoon, Rabbi Uri Topolosky, the thirty-something-year-old spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Israel in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans, walked the…
Many divisions plague the Orthodox Jewish community, and many efforts at solidarity work to unite us. We need one more such effort. It will not…
It is an unavoidable fact of life that from the moment we are born, we begin to get older. In our forties, we move into…
One hundred national lay and rabbinic leaders of the Orthodox Union (OU) traveled to the nation’s capital just days before Rosh Hashanah for the OU’s…
