Years ago, The Jewish Press ran a regular feature called Halachic Corner with Rav Hershel Schachter. Elliott Resnick asked the questions to R’ Schachter. One of those exchanges stuck in my head, but I have not been able to find…
Rabbi Hershel Schachter Several times a year I visit Eretz Yisroel. When I take a night flight I notice that many men sleep for five to six hours, and then recite Shema and daven Shacharis after waking up, as if they were at a seven…
June 24, 2018 Interviews conducted by Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Chief Editor You’re supposed to if the flower has a good smell. Hardly anyone does, though. They don’t know. Years ago, a new baalas teshuvah was speaking to me at…
The following is from the column Halachic Corner With Rav Hershel Schachter that appeared on page 23 of the 8/10/18 issue of the Jewish Press We consider kiverei tzaddikim holy locations, so we pray to Hakadosh Baruch – not to the tzaddikim -that in the zechus of…
By Rabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin – 26 Elul 5778 – September 5, 2018 The swordfish is one of the most extraordinary creatures in the sea. One of the largest, fastest, and most aggressive of all bony fishes, it starts its…
On November 7, 2007, the old TorahAnytime/KolYakov site posted Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi’s debate with Christian teacher Daniel Mann under the title “The Debate – Rabbi vs. Christian,” split into two parts. The frum takeaway was pretty predictable: Mizrachi destroyed him.…
By Barbara Bensoussan | August 5, 2025 Who doesn’t love a good magic trick, especially when the joke’s on you? From spontaneous sleight of hand as he strolls through the park looking for volunteers, to upscale dinner parties and even…
By Yitzchok Landa | November 25, 2025 “How could you endorse Mamdani?” Tough questions for Satmar askan Rabbi Moishe Indig Rabbi Moishe Indig never wanted to be a communal askan, yet this reluctant leader has been able to sway elections and accrue political friends with…
03/10/2019 Kahane spoke of Jewish pain and power. Of Asuchwitz and of American Jewish passivity. He protected elderly Jews and fought for Soviet Jewry, but he also had followers who commitedreprehensible actions. I never knew Rabbi Meir Kahane, but I…
Rabbi Gershom Baraza; Kosher Check’s Man in China WRITTEN BY DAVID LITVAK, CASCADIA PUBLISHING Pesach 2024 Issue of Kosher Check Kosher Check, a renowned kashrut organization with a global presence, takes great pride in its dedicated team of mashgichim who…
By Shmuel Landesman – 2 Adar 5783 – February 22, 2023 Rav Abba Bronspigel, popular rosh yeshiva at RIETS and founding rosh yeshiva of Bais Medrash L’Talmud at Lander College for Men, died on Shabbos, February 18 in Lakewood, N.J.…
From the Latin Vulgate: (https://www.biblestudytools.com/vul/numbers/15.html) “loquere filiis Israhel et dices ad eos ut faciant sibi fimbrias per angulos palliorum ponentes in eis vittas hyacinthinas “ Wycliffe translation (2 centuries before King James – https://www.biblestudytools.com/wyc/numbers/15.html): “Speak thou to the sons of Israel,…
From https://onthemainline.blogspot.com/2010/07/come-my-beloved-let-us-greet-bride-let.html H/T Fred Macdowell On August 8, 1846 the Literaturblatt des Orients published the following parodic criticism of recent steps in German Reform Judaism, especially the desire to move the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. It was penned by the self-styled…
From Gil Student here: https://www.torahmusings.com/2011/01/bareheaded-and-uncensored/ “R. David Zvi Hoffmann was the leading halakhic decisor in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. A brilliant Talmudist and academic scholar, he succeeded R. Azriel Hildesheimer as rector of the Orthodox rabbinic…
I Belong To A NationI belong to a nationThe oldest in the archivesI Belong to a nationThat no historian understoodI belong to a nationAs well as the nature from beneath itI belong to a nationFrom before whom a great sea…
Back in 2001, Deborah Schoenman wrote a memorable piece for the New York Post called “Muscle Tov” featuring a Hasidic workout video. I remember clipping the piece, only for someone later on to steal it. Since then I’ve been unable…
We want to have some piece of Chazal that says murex trunculus is the Chilazon for Techeiles – purfura. The Raavya is known about, as was discovered by Bezalel Naor 30 years ago, that Techeiles is purfurin.People didn’t know what…
Years ago I saw videos of the eery parallel between the ten sons of Haman and ten Nazi war criminals at the 1946 Nuremberg Trials. In 1946, ten convicted Nazi war criminals were hanged in Nuremberg on October 16th, the…