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Rav Elyashiv has passed away. This is a tremendous loss for the Jewish people. May his death be an atonement for our nation. המקום ינחם או...

הנני נותן לו את בריתי שלום - God grants the special covenant of peace to Pinchas. This is a special kind of peace, the peace of Aharon the ...

Time for another installment of comments I posted on Cross-Currents posts, that have (as of yet) not been approved: Post:  Nachal Charedi ...

בשאלת חציצות למיניהן, מתי יוצרות חיוב לחזור ולטבול דברַי להלן מובאות כעיון, ואין להשליך מהם מסקנות הלכתיות מעשיות אלא בנוסף להתייעצות עם...

I. I finished reading Rabbi Soloveitchik’s Emergence of Ethical Man on Shavuot, and have just completed a reading of Dr Hazony’s essay on...

I am reading Moshe Greenberg's translation of Yehezkel Kaufmann's work, Religion of Israel . Part of Kaufmann's thesis is that t...

Since a post at Cross-Currents, extolling the idea that the rishonim were on a higher plane than we are, spiritually and scholastically, and...

Rav Neriyah used to say that we live in a world of b'diavad , a post factum , imperfect, vitiated world where we cannot expect to find o...

In this post, I will list a skeletal timeline of Jewish History, from the exile of the ten tribes through the twentieth century. Please feel...

Before the Disengagement from the Gaza Strip, the following MK's mocked the idea that this would lead to rockets on Ashkelon: Meir Sheet...

In response to a disrespectful, shameful opinion piece in the Beacon : The truth is, Weinreich does not advocate "forgetting" th...