On The Contrary

Israel's Marriage Law and its Role in the Formation of an Israeli Citizenry  (unpublished research paper) Different L...

My older son will become a bar mitzvah on Sunday, and he will mark the occasion with a siyum  on all 6 orders of the Mishnah. In honor of th...

This past February, I had the chance to visit the grave of Franz Rosenzweig in Frankfurt--not a pilgrimage site, but a place I was drawn to ...

Meir Pogrow is but the latest in a long list of charismatic rabbis and Jewish educators who fell from grace when the world finally learned h...

This was fun to put together with some really clever minds. Gemara Purim 5776 האשה רבה by Elli Schorr

Over the past week, I had the privilege of hosting a conversation with Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer, Rabbi Yehudah Glick, and Professor Sh...

Scene: Bibi’s office. In attendance are Prime Minister Netanyahu and everyone who would be played by a main character in an Israeli ver...

An advantage of davening in a minyan in a local yeshiva is that you never know what seforim might turn up or what you might find in them. ...

Ritvas on Eidus and Briskers on Gittin, Threats, bans, and cherems, both oral and written Trashing the arguments each rabbi brings T...