A Hallowed Life in Contemporary Times
My esteemed guest today is the Chabad shliach in Minnesota and dean of the Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies Rabbi Manis Friedman, who is...
The Mayor of the Chareidi Capital // Managing the city at...
“I feel a heavy responsibility,” says Mayor Rabbi Avraham Rubinstein of Bnei Brak. While Bnei Brak might not have the historical significance of a...
Invisible Weapons // Is the US ready for the next war?
There is a saying that America’s generals are always preparing to fight the last war.
Pity.
The history of American body counts suggests that our opponents...
A Military Raid to Save Sifrei Torah // Rabbi Yitzchak Bleichbard,...
It was a horrific sight, even for the most jaded of mispallelim.
Early risers arriving at the Tiferes Shimon shul on Rechov Rabbi Akiva in...
Chain of heartache // My sister’s tragic life
When I was growing up, Williamsburg wasn’t the way it is today. These days it’s a bustling neighborhood populated by tens of thousands of...
Killing the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg // Has New...
On June 14, the New York State legislature passed the Housing Stability and Tenant Protections Act of 2019, which made a long list of...
The Missing Son // A visit to the eye doctor uncovers...
Boruch Yida Ganz, a middle-aged Satmar Chasid from Williamsburg
Roughly 120 years after the petirah of my elter-zeide, Dayan Rav Mordechai Rothstein of Holmein, I...
A New Semichah for Mohalim // Rabbanim respond to a growing...
Recently, rabbanim in the New York area have noted a halachic issue: A growing number of young mohalim have been failing to do a...
Knesset Consequences Continue // Gabbay calls it quits; Lieberman is in...
Among the many recent news updates, polling results and dramatic declarations in Israeli politics this past week, it was impossible to miss two significant...
From Neo-Nazism to Israel // The mesmerizing life journey of Yonatan...
The renowned German poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, once said, “Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power...
