Emes Ve-Emunah

In Judaism men and women are given specific roles. Each has their own area of responsibility for fulfilling God’s will.

As Orthodox Jews who understand the value of the Torah and the importance of following Halacha – how can we change this new secular Jewish paradigm?

To their credit, the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) came out with a statement applauding the courage of Kolko's young victim.

Can we remain ambivalent in the face of what our eyes saw and ears heard?

In a million years I would have never dreamed that people who look and dress the same way and very likely share the same religious values could be so radically different.

Yiddish words are increasingly seeping into the English language.

Minister Lapid should not be judged by a few offhand comments spoken in angry response to being constantly attacked as a Torah hater.

He was a giant not only to his own Sephardi community, but to the entire Torah world.

The T that is missing is in the honorific ‘ZTL’ written after the name of rabbinic leaders that have passed away.

The joyous members of Skvere had absolutely no compassion for this poor woman. They only saw someone who left the community and went OTD.

Even though 10% of Jewry identifies as Orthodox, 14% to 17% say they were raised Orthodox.

It is a fact that heterodoxy is no longer the threat to Orthodoxy it once was – if at all.

I don’t know what it is that turns good people into crooks.

Images of ‘the other’ are heavily biased by what the media report about them.

I do not enjoy the second Simchas Torah at all.

The Charedi world has never seen the government in a positive light and condemns it frequently.

I question the success rate claims made by conversion therapy advocates upon which Agudah no doubt relies.

It used to be the case that an Orthodox parent would sit Shiva on a child who intermarried.

Being frum today is an upper-middle-class pursuit.

What would compel a devout Jewish father to take the life of his own child?

I hope these Breslover Chasidim got what they wanted out of this visit… and that it was worth the Chilul HaShem it ended up making.

Some have argued that the advent of Yoatzot is a slippery slope towards the ordination of female rabbis.

He has taught his Chasidim that one of the worst sins a Jew can do is inform on a fellow Jew to the government.

I disagree with continuing to make an issue of it.

When Chassidim make a request to a government official, he pays attention.

Seeing the sight of Jesus on a cross must have made them feel like they were seeing Avodah Zara in the Beis HaMikdash.

I happen to know Gedolei Torah and Roshei Yeshiva who use I-phones and the internet. Are they all doomed?

The Egyptian army is fighting a movement that is extremely anti Semitic as a part of its religious theology.

The moderate Charedi world that I often talk about as the future of mainstream American Orthodoxy - is a beneficiary of the new high school curriculum.

Parents who themselves have gone through the day school system recognize their value and no longer need convincing to send their children.