Variations on the Chanukah Theme was originally delivered as a sermon by Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm during Chanukah 1958 (5718) at the Jewish Center in…
Winter 2010 (5771)
Variations on the Chanukah Theme
Q: In light of all the oily food I’ll be consuming over Chanukah, can you explain how oils can be healthy if they contain so…
In honor of Chanukah, it is traditional to eat foods fried in oil, including luscious latkes and sufganiyot (Israeli-style donuts traditionally filled with jam). Dairy…
What is Mesorah? Mesorah is not primarily a corpus of knowledge to master but a process of accessing a chain of student-teacher relationships that reaches…
No one looks forward to having surgery, but five and a half years ago, I actually did. I, a kidney doctor, was about to become…
The genesis of this essay began with an inquiry by the Jewish Action editors as to whether there is enough novel or substantive material about…
Doctors Versus Patients: Who Decides Right-to-Life? In the fall of 2007, eighty-four-year-old Samuel Golubchuk, an Orthodox Jew, was admitted to the ICU unit of…
We pray three times each day, but how often do we think about what prayer is or how it works? The exercise of prayer is…
Despite the dire predictions of half a century ago, Orthodox Jewry is today the fastest growing stream in Judaism. No doubt, we have much to…
Divrei HaRav By Rabbi Herschel Schachter Mesorah Commission of the Orthodox Union Rabbi Hershel Schachter is a brilliant Talmudic scholar, a leading halachic decisor and…
