New! Readers’ Mailbag

Today, I answer questions about my recent article on Aliyah; if annexation is still on the agenda; if Donald Trump can bounce back, and whether chareidi MKs are losing confidence in Bibi

New! Readers’ Mailbag
In today’s segment, I answer readers questions about my recent article on Aliyah; if annexation is still on the agenda; if Donald Trump can bounce back in the only poll that really counts, and whether the chareidi Knesset members are losing confidence in Bibi

 

When Mishpacha published its first English magazine in 2004, management decided that when appropriate, we would put a picture of the writer interacting with his interview subject in the article.

Initially, I was wary. I’m not shy, but I did not want to be the star of my own article. I wanted my work to speak for itself. As time went on, I came to appreciate the idea. I wasn’t just a faceless writer. Readers recognized me. They would stop me on the street, talk to me in shul – after davening was over of course – and even in airports or on an Egged bus, asking me about something I wrote or sometimes, to get a more unplugged take on current events.

Today, I’m taking this to the next step with this new column, where you ask and I answer. Here are a few questions that have come my way in recent days.

(A reader in Ramat Beit Shemesh questioned one of the propositions in my recent article on Aliyah that the state of Israel should create incentives for wealthy people from chutz l’aretz to make Aliyah.) My question for you, he asked, especially from the perspective and hashkafah of a chareidi publication: 

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