Shabbos Parashas Nitzavim-Vayelech, the Last Shabbos of 5784, was also one of the most unique and emotional Shabbasos I can...

Last Sunday, the 28th of Av (September 1, 2024), at the heart-wrenching funeral of the murdered captive Uri Danino, former...

Disgraced and enraged at the Sages who failed to prevent his public humiliation, the Talmud (Gittin 56a) relates how Bar...

Although many harrowing months have passed, we all recall the social turmoil that engulfed Israel in the period before the...

Israel’s state of emergency following the murderous October 7th attack has brought to the forefront the unresolved issue of drafting...

The new antisemitism, the type that has become so dominant in the months since the October 7th massacre, belongs to...

Amid the unstopping clamor over the draft of Charedi yeshiva students, a remarkable declaration of staunch opposition by a group...

In these difficult days, with the war dragging on and many decisions to be made about confronting our enemy, it...

The truth is that we had it coming. Rabbi Elazar Menachem Shach, the mythological leader who presided over Haredi society...

“After the outbreak of the ‘Iron Swords’ war, the main question asked by thousands of Charedi women was: ‘How can...

The events of October 7 led many to declare a “collapse of preconceptions” – failings that left us open to...

No less than four policy drafts for recruiting Charedim, some longer and some short and terse, arrived on my desk...

One day, perhaps during the Protective Edge campaign in 2014, one of my sons returned home from school, citing an...

Distinguishing between the written Torah (the Tanach) and the Oral Torah (the Mishnah and Talmud) was a fundamental element of...

In his article “Between Isolation and Alienation” [Hebrew], Rabbi Pfeffer describes a troubling phenomenon of indifference to the current plight...

On the last day of 1897, just a few months after the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Theodor Herzl’s The...

“If a person sees suffering coming upon him, he should examine his actions, as it says (Eicha 3:40): ‘Let us...

A friend who once worked at a Jerusalem bank branch recounted a random encounter between two bank employees, one a...

My grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, was invited a few years ago on Holocaust Memorial Day to tell her story at...

September 2005, right after the summer of the Gush Katif “disengagement.” As the summer vacation came to an end, we...

Our instinctive tendency upon encountering a range of incidents and occurrences is to strengthen existing positions and frame the events...

The standard Jewish question to moments of hardship is, “Why did this calamity befall us?” It accompanies us always. When...

Simchat Torah morning. Stepping out of the house, worrying about how much candy the kids might consume, I hear an...

Troubled times have come upon us. At the close of Simchas Torah, when numbers started flying in the air, our...

The Internet is flooded these days with calls for unity. We feel the need for unity intuitively. We know how...

Two analyses were recently published on the colossal security failure that allowed Hamas to breach Israel’s defense lines and commit...