A prince once lay dying, and seeing that the doctors could do no more for him, the frantic king sent for a tzaddik known to…
Winter 2014 (5775)
Rekindling the Flame: Neo-Chassidus Brings the Inner Light of Torah to Modern Orthodoxy
Misconception: Leading authorities including Rambam and Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook maintain that korbanot, animal sacrifices, will not be reinstated in the time of…
Screenwriter Clashes with Scary Hollywood Executive, Part I The studio executive hated me. Or at least, she hated a critical exchange in my script,…
Collected Essays, Vol. I By Haym Soloveitchik Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Oxford, 2013 352 pages Reviewed by Jeffrey R. Woolf Professor Haym Soloveitchik is the…
Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, remembering Orthodox Jewry and the Civil Rights Movement In December 1958, Rabbi Isadore Goodman of Memphis traveled…
I used to be a regular visitor to the New York Public Library’s Dorot Division, consulting its vast collection of rabbinic texts with the assistance…
I’ve never met a latke I didn’t like. Chanukah is still one of my favorite holidays, and to me, hot, crispy latkes taste best straight…
My mother’s death brought to life a disturbing realization. Although she will always be the precious woman I call “Mommy,” I never really knew her.…
It began with a text message. Rav [Dovid] Stav* wants you to call him. I called. “There’s a young [secular] woman whose mother is originally…
Rabbi Hershel Schachter, rosh yeshivah at Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and OU posek, speaks with Jewish Action about the conflict between Torah…
