Dr. Steven Krauss
By Malkie Gordon Hirsch
I suffer from opposing thoughts and feelings more frequently than ever before and though I know it all still thankfully falls under the “normal feelings” category,...
A Closer Look at Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, z’l, was a descendant of Rav Avrohom Weinberg, the first Slonimer Rebbe, one of the leading chassidic rabbis of the 19th century. He...
From Moshe To Moshe—I Will Be With You
By Malkie Hirsch
As we sat down for dinner tonight, the six of us eating and chitchatting about various topics, a thought of doing this family thing by ourselves without...
Novak: What We Can Learn From Sheryl Sandberg’s Fall
By Jake Novak
It was a rare and touching moment of humanity in the otherwise inhuman world of news. Fresh from the sudden tragedy of her husband’s death, Facebook Chief...
AN INSPIRING BAGEL
Every now and then it pays to take stock and do an emotional inventory, so to speak. And one of those points of curiosity over the years has been...
The Kiddush Club Crisis
By Yochanan Gordon
It seems that for anything to get attention in the Jewish community, it needs to be termed a “crisis.” Thankfully, from a literary point of view, the...
Novak: Why Comparing the Migrant Crisis to the Holocaust Is Dangerous for Jews
By Jake Novak
Two years after President Donald Trump was elected, you’d think America’s politicians and news media alike would have finally tired of all the comparisons to Nazi Germany.
But...
Save The Agunah
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Dahlia Oziel is a singer, songwriter, and Instagram influencer who has started a revolution in how the Jewish community responds to agunos. The terrain has now...
Frager: Ascending to the Rabbinate
Becoming a rabbi was always a dream of mine. I had two older brothers, a brother-in-law, a mechutan, and a son — R’ Binyomin Yehudah — who were rabbis....
Editor’s Blog: Guns and Jews
In the aftermath of the deadly massacre in a shul in Pittsburgh, more people are engaging in conversations about guns. The talk is not just about the danger of...
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Musings Of A Shliach From Montana: Playing the Long Game
If one is seeking instant gratification, being a shliach of the Rebbe, zt’l, is not the right gig, and with that “need” it would...
NORPAC’s Answer To Rising Anti-Semitism: Don’t Complain, Campaign
By Michele Justic
You may have seen the viral video on your local WhatsApp Chat: Congressman Ritchie Torres presents a logical, well-informed, eloquent defense of...
A Less-Urgent Emergency
I received a message more than a week ago about a time-sensitive issue. The message was accompanied by a photo of a group of...