Looking Back on the Kerestirer Rebbe
Machberes: Inside The Chassidish And Yeshivish World
By Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum
For the past several years, a large group of chassidim have been traveling to an important gravesite in Hungary, to...
Orthodox Union Leadership, Synagogue Delegates Unanimously Elect Mitchel Aeder as 18th OU President
Outgoing President Mark (Moishe) Bane Hands Reins to Mitchel Aeder After Six Years Successfully Leading the Organization
This week, Mitchel Aeder began his term as the 18th president of the...
From Good To Great: YU Online Course Teaches Rabbis The Art Of Public...
By Rochelle Maruch Miller
Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future and affiliate Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) recently launched “Drashas and Shiurim: From Good to Great,” a continuing rabbinic...
Jedwab: Our Chance to Be Different
By Gila Jedwab, DMD
I am not a rabbi or a doctor. I have a dental degree and some thoughts. My goal in writing is to help find a way...
Gedale Fenster: The Tony Robbins of Torah
By Tobi Rubinstein
At first glance, one might think that Gedale Fenster is the subject of a GQ Magazine editorial. His confident demeanor and appearance are contrary to any image...
Torah Academy For Girls 55th Annual Dinner, February 20
According to dinner chairmen Eliyahu Berger and Yehuda Biber, the 55th annual dinner of Torah Academy for Girls promises to be an event that will touch the hearts of...
The Mitzvah Tantz: Forbidden Or Kosher Minhag?
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
The mitzvah tantz is one of the greatest controversies that still remains of the Chassid–Misnaged divide. When Misnagdim first hear about it, they are in a...
The Order of Aliyos to the Torah
A translation of Biur Halacha #136 by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
l’ilui Nishmas his father Dr. Nathan Hoffman z”l whose sixth yartzeit is 5 Iyar, Sunday evening.
Please feel free to...
Using Reform and Conservative Synagogues and Halacha
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
When one brings up using non-Orthodox synagogues, many respond with an emotion-filled reaction. The truth is one cannot really understand another person without having walked a...
What Rabbi Weinberger Really Wants
By Ben Yissachar Dov
The chareidi intelligentsia’s attention has been riveted, in recent weeks, to an ongoing debate between Woodmere’s Rabbi Moshe Weinberger and his chevrah of “neo-Chassidim” versus “old-guard”...
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Netanyahu Expected to Freeze Judicial Reforms Amid Mass Civil Disobedience
(March 27, 2023 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to freeze his government’s judicial reform program on Monday.
He is set to deliver a speech...
True Character
Each one of Masechet Avot’s perakim begins with a central teaching. The fourth perek opens with Ben Zoma’s definition of four characters: the...
Heard In The Matzah Factory No More: A 5TJT Fan Relates
By Chaim Yehuda Meyer
I read with great interest Larry Gordon’s article, “The History of Cake” (March 17, 2023). Mr. Gordon reminiscences about the Passover...