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.
A Forgotten Champion of American Orthodoxy
Posted on: November 23rd, 2005
InDepth → Front PageRabbi Dr. Bernard Drachman (1861 - 1945)
The Case Against College – But For a College Education
Posted on: October 19th, 2005
InDepth → Front PageA number of weeks ago I received an email from someone asking me to consider writing an article about yeshiva high school students and college education.
Posted on: September 7th, 2005
InDepth → Front PageOn the eve of the unilateral Gaza withdrawal, Ariel Sharon explained his action to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot:
Nixon: The ‘Anti-Semite’ Who Saved Israel
Posted on: August 3rd, 2005
InDepth → Front PageIf judged only by what is heard on his White House tapes, Richard Nixon, who resigned the presidency 31 years ago this week, appears to have been a man obsessed with Jews, stewing in negative feelings, never hesitating to use the crudest of slurs.
Is This Simcha Really a Simcha?
Posted on: June 15th, 2005
InDepth → Front PageYou glance through your mail, and there it is - an invitation to a simcha. It could be a chasuna ora Bar Mitzvah.
A Tribe Apart: Jews of the American South
Posted on: May 11th, 2005
InDepth → Front PageThey are not the Jews of bagels and lox brunches with the Sunday New York Times.
The Vanishing Jewish Baseball Player
Posted on: April 6th, 2005
InDepth → Front PageWhatever happened to Jewish baseball players? Not that they're an extinct species - several Jews are currently playing in the major leagues or working their way through the minors - but Jewish baseball fans will tell you the present-day crop is relatively unaccomplished and unknown.
Posted on: March 2nd, 2005
InDepth → Front PageThere is an old Swazi legend about a beautiful maiden who fell in love with a handsome warrior.
Posted on: February 9th, 2005
InDepth → Front PageIn "The Case for Secular Studies in Yeshivas" (front-page essay, Nov. 19, 2004) I outlined my thoughts about problems yeshivas are having with general studies and suggested changes.
‘Say It Ain’t So’… But It Was So
Posted on: February 2nd, 2005
InDepth → Front PageMuch of childhood is spent in illusion. We grow up imagining things not as they are, but as we wish them to be.
Anti-Semitism at Frankfurt Book Fair
Posted on: January 5th, 2005
InDepth → Front PageMonths after the Frankfurt Book Fair was accused of displaying anti-Semitic Arab literature, organizers of the world's most glamorous publishing event are still bitter about the allegations.
Religious Coercion, Reform Style
Posted on: December 29th, 2004
InDepth → Front PageThe political interference by the rabbis is getting more and more unbearable.
Master Builder: Rav Teitz and the Elizabeth Kehilla
Posted on: December 22nd, 2004
InDepth → Front PageOne cannot think of Yiddishkeit in Elizabeth, New Jersey, without at the same time recalling the community's longtime leader, Harav Mordechai Pinchas Teitz, zt"l.
Posted on: December 15th, 2004
InDepth → Front PageIt was the Wednesday afternoon before Thanksgiving. Downtown offices in Washington had emptied out for the weekend.
Posted on: December 1st, 2004
InDepth → Front PagePrologue: Oct. 2004. I am sitting at my desk holding a new book in my hands. It has just come from the printer.
The Case for Secular Studies in Yeshivas
Posted on: November 17th, 2004
InDepth → Front Page"When I was in the illustrious city of Vilna in the presence of the Rav, the light, the great Gaon, my master and teacher, the light of the eyes of the exile, the renowned pious one (may Hashem protect and save him) Rav Eliyahu, in the month of Teves 5538 [January 1778], I heard from his holy mouth that according to what a person is lacking in knowledge of the "other wisdoms," correspondingly he will be lacking one hundred portions in the wisdom of the Torah, because the Torah and the 'other wisdoms' are inextricably linked together ..."
George Bush’s America: Moral Beacon in a Dark World
Posted on: November 10th, 2004
InDepth → Front PageThe American people have once again demonstrated that they are the most glorious on earth.
A Non-Nuanced Middle East Peace Plan
Posted on: November 10th, 2004
InDepth → Front PageIn the October 7, 2004 issue of The New York Review of Books, Rob Malley, who was part of the U.S. team at Camp David, reviewed Dennis Ross's book on the peace process (The Missing Peace) and came to a conclusion very different from Ross.
How France Sank The Original Mideast Peace
Posted on: November 10th, 2004
InDepth → Front PageAt the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919, in a flag-bedecked, battle-scarred but victorious Paris, the great top-hatted Allied men of vision and illusion gathered to remake the world and invent the post-Ottoman Middle East.
Israel Kaleidoscope Thoughts From A Solidarity Mission
Posted on: October 27th, 2004
InDepth → Front PageWant to be awakened from the galut slumber? Want to be rejuvenated spiritually and emotionally?
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