20+ hour, 2+ min ago  (390+ words) As a religious leader, translator, newspaper editor and public spokesman, Leeser is a crucial figure in the history of Orthodox Judaism in the United States. The lodestar for a generation of traditional Jews in the United States, he appeared at…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (223+ words) Celebrating 250 Years of America: The Orthodox Jewish Experience Reflections on Orthodox Jewish Life in America by Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter Why American Jewish History Matters: The Orthodox Experience by Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff America and the Problem of Opportunity, a…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1074+ words) For more than a hundred years after America's founding, Orthodoxy was practiced by dispersed individuals committed to it who acted alone, bereft of any institutional infrastructure or support. It was only sometime in the second half of the nineteenth century…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago  (1209+ words) As America prepared to celebrate its Bicentennial back in 1975, a quiet debate was unfolding within Orthodox Jewish circles: Was the United States a providential haven for Jewish flourishing'or a subtle engine of assimilation? No doubt, the American Jewish experience is…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1049+ words) By Rabbi Yehuda Meir Keilson New Jersey, Vol. 1, 2023; Vol. 2, 2024 Vol. 1, 500 pages; Vol. 2, 654 pages Reviewed by Rabbi Moshe Maimon The two recently published volumes of Art Scroll's Kisvei Ha Rambam are a remarkable tour de force that offer scholars and laymen…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (828+ words) A matzah bakery in Bucharest, Romania, provides essential employment to refugees forced to flee Odesa during the Russian bombardments of Ukraine. For the refugees of Ukraine, hope is now found in a box of matzah." For the displaced Jewish community…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (643+ words) Courtesy of Yeshiva University To realize that my beloved friend of seventy years, Rabbi Julius Berman, has left this world, is extremely painful." Just six months ago'when I celebrated my big birthday at the annualsiyumat Yeshiva University'Julie surprised me by…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1026+ words) It was Friday night at Kharkiv's Beis Menachem, the only operating shul in Ukraine's second-largest city. About a hundred people, mostly parents with children, had gathered to celebrate Shabbat. To break the ice, Miriam Moskovitz, the shul's Australian-born Chabad'rebbetzin,'posed…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (72+ words) The Making of the Siddur: The History, Development, and Halachos of the Siddur By Rabbi Moshe Walter Stories & Halachah from the Psychiatrist's Couch By Dr. Yaakov Freedman and Rabbi Akiva Dershowitz The Torah is not meant to eliminate all human…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (247+ words) Aggadot Ha Rav: The Lectures of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik on Aggadah, Stephen Neuwirth Edition Edited by Rabbi Yaakov Hoffman In another chapter, the Rav addresses the philosophy of Jewish history, triggered by the dialogue between Beruriah and a heretic regarding…...