by Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld | Jan 11, 2023 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld in the Queens Jewish Link Last week, the great governor of New York signed a bill that a person may sign an agreement that, after death, his or her body will be used as compost. Yes, compost to fertilize a garden. I guess she is taking the...
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky | Jan 5, 2023 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in The Jewish Press Ben Shapiro’s exposure of the failures of Modern Orthodoxy has generated a lot of waves. Most of those who define themselves as such, he opined, fall into one of three classes: the Secular Orthodox, whose values are almost...
by Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld | Jan 4, 2023 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld in the Queens Jewish Link It has become a routine of mine here in Baltimore to attend the weekly Motza’ei Shabbos history lectures given by Rabbi Dovid Katz in Congregation Shomrei Emunah. Currently, Rabbi Katz is focusing on modern Israeli...
by CJV | Dec 27, 2022 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Dov Fischer in the Israel National News (Our story takes place in December 1954 in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York. The community is populated almost exclusively by Jewish and Italian immigrants.) STAVE ONE It was a cold, blustery, frosty...
by Rabbi Dov Fischer | Dec 19, 2022 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator Chanukah is celebrated this year from Sunday night, Dec. 18, through Monday, Dec. 26, at sunset, corresponding to the Hebrew calendar days of 25 Kislev through 2 Tevet. Chanukah is so interesting, isn’t it? It’s the...
by Rabbi Dov Fischer | Dec 17, 2022 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Dov Fischer in the Israel National News I have a close non-Jewish friend. Neither of us fears insulting the other if we ask sincere questions to slake our curiosity. One year he asked me: “Dov, honestly, what’s with the Hannukah thing? With us, December 25 is...
