יום שלישי, ה׳ אלול תשפ״וTuesday, August 18, 2026
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By Josh Wander
What is going on in Washington and an honest conversation about Aliyah with Senior White House Correspondent for Ami Magazine Jake Turx.
Trying to explain Holocaust deaths as tikkun and a way of cleansing a soul is offensive.
“Certainly, there is an absolute condemnation of any sort of college from most Gedolim.” That is how the cover article in last week’s Ami Magazine was punctuated. That article was about the dangers to one’s spiritual health of attending college. Ironically the article itself was very fair about the issue. Various rabbis who are either directly or indirectly involved with colleges and universities that have significant Orthodox Jewish populations were interviewed. There was not a single comment indicative of any Issur on attending college.
In its most recent edition, Ami Magazine has accused Professor Samuel Heilman - a distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College of hating Charedim. I am all too familiar with accusations like this as I am often accused of being a Charedi hater myself. But the truth is that neither I nor Professor Heilman are such a thing.
August 14, 2026 
