by Rabbi Dov Fischer | Oct 27, 2022 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator How to respond to someone who insults you? It depends. How deep was the insult? How personal? How dangerous? Will a response enhance your own position or embroil you in a conflict that you don’t need? Let’s say you are...
by Rabbi Dov Fischer | Oct 13, 2022 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator We are over-inundated — not just inundated, as in a deluge or a Category 5 hurricane, but over-inundated — with virtue signaling that tells us that our humanity and compassion can be gauged only by whether we join up with...
by Rabbi Dov Fischer | Oct 2, 2022 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Dov Fischer in the Israel National News How to tell whether a rabbi or Jewish layman who advocates for “LGBTQs” is speaking of needing to treat “LGBTQs” with sympathy because he or she is motivated by Torah-based compassion — or by the “progressive” Wokeness...
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer | Sep 29, 2022 | Op-Eds, Religious Liberty
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer in the Israel National News In an effort to force the hand of Yeshiva University president Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman and the YU administration to grant undergraduate club status to YU Pride Alliance, over 1600 students, alumni and professors from...
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky | Sep 23, 2022 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in Israel National News Torahphobia is real, prevalent and sweeping across significant parts of the Jewish world. In particular, it is threatening to collapse Modern Orthodoxy, but fortunately, its antidote is at hand. What is Torahphobia? An...
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken | Sep 21, 2022 | Op-Eds, Human Rights
by Rabbi Yaakov Menken in Newsweek At its root, the recent critique of Hasidic schools in The New York Times is not about education, much less “substantial equivalency.” Rather, during a time of increasing antisemitism, with violent incidents centered...
