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Thank you, for both your honest feedback and your friendship-from-afar
It's the day whenas a community, time and again we fail mightily in our designated role on this…
Only a few short weeks ago I got a glimpse of the truly transformative power of the big…
How can it be that an infinite G-d, Who has no needs, created this world just so that…
To enter the succah is to take shelter under His wings from all the storms, literal and figurative
Specific, Meaningful, Action-oriented, Realistic, and Time-bound
Chazal teach that there are worthwhile spiritual insights to be gained from studying earthly kingship
A wonderful program of Gemara study called Daf Hashovua
A quintessentially Jewish idea— that it can be a high honor to be a loser
How can we earn a spot toward the beginning of the line past the Kisei Rachamim on the…
Something as simple as the landline phone kept the members of a family connected to each other
The willingness to fearlessly take a stand in service of the truth
Even the closest human relationship can’t approximate the cleaving of the soul to its Maker
How are we to know what are the things for which we need to repent and mend our…
The gift of a parnassah b’kavod to over 700 frum Jews in New York City
When Jews do things, for better or for worse, they do them in a big way
Not only was Rav Ruderman’s genius invested in the Avodas Levi, so was his mesirus nefesh
Some subtle difference between two words for falsity
Unanimity is achieved at the Supreme Court for really only two reasons
The “rights we confer on others,” including animals, do indeed “define who we are as a society”
My overall attitude toward reader reaction is that, good or bad, it’s all good
All media outlets are “mainstream” within the universe of their target audiences
For now, the memories are still fresh, but they will fade, as will the opportunity
Transforming the stubbornly material into the stuff of the spiritual
Rabbi Wallerstein’s life story holds manifold lessons about what it means to truly care about other Jews
The American constitution entitles even unsavory individuals to free speech
It’s the very difficulties a ben Torah encounters that create the merits that will bring eventual success
Surely our obligation of hishtadlus demands that we daven and work for a stable, peaceful, tolerant, functional America
Each son must be viewed as his own entity, not compared with his brothers, or anyone else’s son…
The will to change, to grow, must be verbalized
Today, every Supreme Court nomination immediately flares into a pitched partisan battle
An entire generation is being raised to not possess seichel and dei’ah
Shlomo Hamelech speaks of an eis lisno— a time to hate, and we Jews are now in ours—…
"There’s a chasm even greater than the one between Heaven and earth— the distance between mind and heart"
What are we now, with people like Reb Yeruchom no longer here to keep our generation anchored in…
What happens when, after much hard work and self-sacrifice, you have actually achieved your goals?
I prefer the view that “like” is a verbal tic indicating hazy tentativeness
Most analysts of the phenomenon agree that the president has little to do with the country’s economic fortunes
There’s something moving about the mental image that a long-ago handwritten reply conjures up
The dichotomy of establishment consensus versus skeptical minority opinion
Thirty-three percent of Jews raised Orthodox do not continue to identify with Orthodoxy as adults
Finding a way to talk to each other without animosity and actually listen to each other as well
I’m not suggesting this story is the beginning and end of any discussion about frum journalism
