Communicated: TefillaChillul Tefila Bifarhesia, as well as halachicly challenged verbiage and dress, are external manifestations of a critical lack of personal yiras shomayim which has lethal consequences.
Sports and the Orthodox Jewish Fan
Posted on: January 30th, 2008
InDepth → Front PageOn Sunday night, many observant Jews will be among the hundreds of millions of people watching the Jets fan's nightmare as the Giants play the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII.
Rabbi Schepschel Schaffer: Early Years of an Orthodox Activist
Posted on: December 27th, 2007
InDepth → Front PageDuring the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a number of rabbis did their utmost to establish and maintain Orthodox Judaism in America.
Posted on: December 12th, 2007
InDepth → Front PageAn interview with the man who led Israel's 1981 attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor
The Values That Make Judaism Unique
Posted on: October 31st, 2007
InDepth → Front PageTwo weeks ago I debated Michael Steinhardt, the renowned philanthropist and self-declared atheist, and Prof. Noah Feldman, arguably America's foremost thirty-something legal mind, on the subject of whether or not Jews are different based on their values.
Posted on: October 24th, 2007
InDepth → Front PageThere is a nefarious lobby that controls American policy and subordinates American interests to its own narrow interests.
Terrorists and U.S. Presidential Politics
Posted on: October 10th, 2007
InDepth → Front Page"If this president does not get us out of Iraq, when I am president, I will," pledged Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in a televised Democratic debate broadcast nationally and around the world.
From Quaker to Shaker to Orthodox Jew
Posted on: September 25th, 2007
InDepth → Front PageThroughout history there have been gentiles who decided the only way for them to come close to God was to convert to Judaism.
Posted on: August 29th, 2007
InDepth → Front PageI suppose I should begin by explaining why I bothered to read the book The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Bantam, 2006).
American Victims of the 1929 Hebron Massacre
Posted on: August 22nd, 2007
InDepth → Front PageOn August 27, 1929, The New York Times ran the following front-page banner:8 AMERICANS LISTED IN 70 HEBRON DEADAttack on Rabbinical College was Savage – 18 Killed in Banker’s HouseWOMEN AND CHILDREN SLAINThe headline referred to an unprovoked massacre perpetrated by Arabs on innocent Jews on August 24. Many of those killed that Shabbos were [...]
The Difference Between ‘Non-Jewish’ And ‘Un-Jewish’
Posted on: July 25th, 2007
InDepth → Front PageNot long ago posters appeared in a number of synagogues in Brooklyn banning a recently published book that, according to the posters, contained misleading halachic rulings.
Court Jews: Pro Basketball’s Forgotten History
Posted on: June 27th, 2007
InDepth → Front PageMention the names Leo Gottlieb, Sid Hertzberg, Ossie Schectman, Ralph Kaplowitz, Nat Milotzok and Hank Rosenstein, and the image that probably comes to mind is that of the board of directors of a Florida retirement village rather than half the roster of the 1946-47 New York Knickerbockers basketball team.
The Anti-Terror Campaign That Succeeded
Posted on: June 27th, 2007
InDepth → Front PageAfter their military defeat by regular forces, the occupied population produced terrorists who engaged in bombings, sniping, poisonings, and other attacks on occupation forces and on the civilian population.
Isaac Leeser: Architect of Traditional Judaism in America
Posted on: June 20th, 2007
InDepth → Front PageWho was the one person most responsible for perpetuating traditional Judaism in 19th century America? The indisputable answer: Isaac Leeser.
The Khazar Myth and the New Anti-Semitism
Posted on: May 9th, 2007
InDepth → Front PageIt is one of the great ironies of the 21st century that anti-Zionists and anti-Semites on both the Left and the Right, have returned to racialist arguments against Jews that most of us thought had died out after World War II.
Posted on: May 2nd, 2007
InDepth → Front PageThe powerful ox of Taurus symbolizes the month of Iyar. The bull's characteristic of stubbornness features positively when it manifests itself as uncompromising loyalty.
America’s First Native-Born, University-Educated Orthodox Rabbi
Posted on: April 25th, 2007
InDepth → Front PageRabbi Pinchas M. Teitz, who eventually became rav of Elizabeth, New Jersey, visited America from 1933-1935.
America’s First Torah Scholar: Israel Baer Kursheedt
Posted on: February 7th, 2007
InDepth → Front PageOne of the factors that hindered the proper early development of Judaism in America was a lack of qualified religious functionaries.
Posted on: January 10th, 2007
InDepth → Front PageThere is a widespread perception in Israel that Sephardic Jews are more sensible than the rest of us. Sephardim, or "Oriental Jews" as they are commonly if mistakenly called (strictly speaking, the two terms are not interchangeable), tend to shy away from the various manifestations of non-moderation that afflict Ashkenazi or "Western" Jews.
Posted on: December 27th, 2006
InDepth → Front PageHarry Truman, who died 34 years ago this week, has long been considered a hero in the struggle for a Jewish state. The truth is somewhat more complicated.
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