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Once again, I am impressed by the level headed approach taken by a moderate Charedi.
If this is not a Chilul HaShem, I don’t know what is.
Lipschutz goes completely off the reservation ranting about the Post and the antisemitic world.
The IDF Haredi draft is "a cynical attempt at social engineering."
Social media will, in the long run, hinder us, as we mistake Facebook comments for agents of growth.
Rav Chaim Kanievsky couldn't possibly have said it with an understanding of the case's real context.
Haredi rabbinical leaders see the Czarist conscription now in Israel's draft.
The Charedi rabbinic leadership not only does not express gratitude for what Herzl created, they condemn him as an evil man.
The Charedi ranks are growing exponentially with every new generation.
I don’t know how observant Mr. Brooks is, but I do know he understands what being Jewish means.
Rabbi Metzger’s less than honorable reputation was known long before he ran for that position.
Marvin Schick called Rabbi Frankfurters’s response "breathtaking in its mean spiritedness."
“I have daughters to marry off and the husbands they want to marry will not accept daughters of someone who is working!”
Even the subject of sexual relations is discussed quite candidly and in my opinion quite beautifully.
The government’s insistence on a core curriculum is considered an attack against the Torah.
I believe this is the first religious leader to have served a 16 year sentence for ‘raping, sodomizing and sexually assaulting a child relative…
To see such dire poverty among those whose values are supposed to be the highest among us - makes you question your own values.
Not only did Jonathan Rosenblum criticize Rabbi Lopatin, he criticized the British Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis for accepting an invitation to Limmud.
“Orthodox birthrates in just the last few years have been soaring,” said Jewish sociologist Steven M. Cohen. “The sky is falling for the rest of the population.”
There was mixed seating. You got to sit with your spouse.
Prominent members of the Lakewood community publicly vilified him - in writing - as a Moser (someone who informs on a fellow Jew to the authorities).
For me, Conservative Judaism is not the answer to the future of Judaism.
Rabbi Grylak blames the Israeli Yated -- specifically naming its editor Nati Grossman for fomenting enmity and violence by vilifying anyone that does not agree with extremist views.
The Dvar Torah I gave yesterday at my grandson Shimon Greenland’s Bar Mitzvah.
Rabbi Weiss wrote: "Israel as a state should give equal opportunities to the Conservative and Reform movements."
The defacto infallibility of "gedolim" alienates “both those who were brought up frum and especially for those who were not.”
In Judaism men and women are given specific roles. Each has their own area of responsibility for fulfilling God’s will.
As Orthodox Jews who understand the value of the Torah and the importance of following Halacha – how can we change this new secular Jewish paradigm?
To their credit, the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) came out with a statement applauding the courage of Kolko's young victim.
Can we remain ambivalent in the face of what our eyes saw and ears heard?
In a million years I would have never dreamed that people who look and dress the same way and very likely share the same religious values could be so radically different.
Yiddish words are increasingly seeping into the English language.
Minister Lapid should not be judged by a few offhand comments spoken in angry response to being constantly attacked as a Torah hater.
He was a giant not only to his own Sephardi community, but to the entire Torah world.
The T that is missing is in the honorific ‘ZTL’ written after the name of rabbinic leaders that have passed away.
The joyous members of Skvere had absolutely no compassion for this poor woman. They only saw someone who left the community and went OTD.
Even though 10% of Jewry identifies as Orthodox, 14% to 17% say they were raised Orthodox.
It is a fact that heterodoxy is no longer the threat to Orthodoxy it once was – if at all.
I don’t know what it is that turns good people into crooks.
Images of ‘the other’ are heavily biased by what the media report about them.
I do not enjoy the second Simchas Torah at all.
The Charedi world has never seen the government in a positive light and condemns it frequently.
I question the success rate claims made by conversion therapy advocates upon which Agudah no doubt relies.
It used to be the case that an Orthodox parent would sit Shiva on a child who intermarried.
Being frum today is an upper-middle-class pursuit.
What would compel a devout Jewish father to take the life of his own child?
I hope these Breslover Chasidim got what they wanted out of this visit… and that it was worth the Chilul HaShem it ended up making.
Some have argued that the advent of Yoatzot is a slippery slope towards the ordination of female rabbis.
He has taught his Chasidim that one of the worst sins a Jew can do is inform on a fellow Jew to the government.
I disagree with continuing to make an issue of it.
When Chassidim make a request to a government official, he pays attention.
Seeing the sight of Jesus on a cross must have made them feel like they were seeing Avodah Zara in the Beis HaMikdash.
I happen to know Gedolei Torah and Roshei Yeshiva who use I-phones and the internet. Are they all doomed?
The Egyptian army is fighting a movement that is extremely anti Semitic as a part of its religious theology.
The moderate Charedi world that I often talk about as the future of mainstream American Orthodoxy - is a beneficiary of the new high school curriculum.
Parents who themselves have gone through the day school system recognize their value and no longer need convincing to send their children.
"As soon as these chariots of kedusha started running, the suicide bombers stopped."
I know families with an OTD child that are very right wing, moderate Charedi, and right wing Modern Orthodox.
They live in a world apart from the rest of observant Jewry.
Rabbi Avigdor Miller did not want to publish this work during his lifetime. He felt that so soon after the Holocaust it would upset survivors
I don’t know that the majority of the Haredi world actually considers memorials to IDF fallen soldiers to be idolatry.
The revision of the DSM that omitted homosexuality was not based on research, nor was much else. It was "political" pressure.
In 1998 The APA issued a report claiming “that the ‘negative potential’ of adult sex with children was ‘overstated.’"
One might say that this is a major achievement by the administration. But one would be wrong.
How manipulating shadchanim and even offering financial "incentives" to marry men off to older women is ethically sound or halachically permissible has yet to be explained.
R’ Yaakov’s experiences once he left the cocoon of the Lakewood environment provided him with an entirely different perspective on what non Jews are really like.
I get so worked up when one of us, especially one who is observant, somehow misbehaves in any way.
The rhetoric that has accompanied the proposed legislation to subject Charedim the draft seems to be bordering on hysteria.
Unlike the survivors of abuse that took place at YU, I do not want to see YU close down.
Satmar has long ago established itself as anti Israel and everyone knows it. Standing on the same stage creates the perception of endorsing their views.
I am not angry at the dogs who attacked a Charedi soldier. But I am upset at the Rabbinic leadership who have thus far remained silent.
The fault lies in the attitudes fostered in the societies that produce these animals.
The latest volley in the intra-Orthodox ‘wars’ is the one between one of my heroes, Lord, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and the rabbinic leaders of Agudah.
The backlash is coming in the form of attacking Charedi recruits.
"Yeshiva University is not only an institution. It is a faith, a vision, a dream, a destiny. It has been my faith, my vision, my dream, and my destiny."
It is time to let Rabbi Lipman speak for himself and explain what he is doing and why.
Rabbi Bloom’s condescending condemnation is particularly troubling because he clearly bases it on assumptions about someone he has never met.
In a democracy that separates church from state, it makes sense to not allow biblical prohibitions to impede freedom to those who do not believe in the bible.
I do not envy Chief Rabbi Elect, Ephraim Mirvis. Lord Sacks’ shoes will be hard to fill.
They used the same litany against the government heard repeatedly from the right, vilifying Zionism in all its forms from its inception to this day.
The circumstances of the Edward Snowden case are not so different from Jonathan Pollard's.
The Charedi rabbinic leaders in Israel who are not accustomed to American standards are afraid of them.
Apology Letter to Mrs S.
Rav Lopiansky tries to actually answer some of the questions I have publicly asked about the current Charedi opposition to drafting Charedim into the army.
One of the arguments Jonathan makes is that we here in the United States ought to ‘not mix in’ to the issues affecting Charedim in Israel.
This was simply an opportunity to capitalize on something they thought would have universal appeal in the Charedi world.
No matter how many times Lapid says he does not want to destroy Charedi Judaism, they see him as disingenuous with an ulterior motive to destroy the Charedi way of life.
Albert Einstein once said that the definition of insanity is doing the same experiment twice and expecting different results.
“What’s the Matter with Kids Today”. That is the title of a song sung by actor Paul Lynde from the 1960s musical Bye Bye Birdie. Whenever I see a story like the following one, it makes me think of that song. But not in good way. In fact it kind of makes my blood boil. I […]
Let me emphasize that it is not me indicting Lakewood. It is coming from a Charedi Musmach.
Unless he at some minimal level wants to try and go back "On the Derech" the parent will not love them.
I don’t see why any group has to identify itself as gay or straight in this parade.
I’m sure this is an empty threat. No one is going to get lashes. It is just a scare tactic. Or is it?
Virtually all the Gedolim of previous generations, including Rav Soloveitchik, forbade any religious collaboration with heterodox rabbis for fear of giving them tacit recognition.
Despite the criticisms, Haredi society has positives that should be recognized.
No religious Jew would deny the merit that Torah study. But it is the height of folly to believe that a strong military is therefore unnecessary.
Just as the IRS targeted conservative groups, according a report, a leaked document states that Israel's Economic Affairs Ministry is targeting Haredi businesses and Yeshivos.
Eliminating all secular studies is taking "Talmud Torah k’neged kulom" to an absurd extreme.
If ritual observance is voluntary and all that counts is ethos, why not just drop the whole charade and just call anyone with an ethical perspective on life a Reform Jew?
July 3, 2026 
