In Israeli military, a growing Orthodoxy

by Dan Williams, Reuters
Published on March 5, 2012

Roni Daniel saw the writing on the wall in a toilet. A former infantry commander who fought in three Middle East wars and now the dean of Israeli defense correspondents, Daniel recently visited military headquarters in Tel Aviv.

Who Wrote the Torah? Committed Theology in an Age of Skepticism

Published on February 24, 2012

Guest Post by Rabbi Seth Winberg Defending Rabbi Dov Linzer’s New York Times Op Ed

Published on February 13, 2012

The Religious Cost of Rejecting Feminism’s Core Moral Claim

By Rav Yosef Kanefsky
Published on January 29, 2012

The religious impetus for a sovereign Kosovo

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on February 18, 2008

Books: A heretic with fries on the side

By David Kaufmann
Published on October 4, 2007

Consider, then, Shalom Auslander. In his corrosively funny memoir, "Foreskin's Lament," he claims he is a foreskin: singled out, cut off and cast forth. In reality, he is something much more Jewish, almost essentially so. He's an apikores, a heretic.

Hindu widows, remembering Marcy, Conservatives are dishy, Oh! Happy Day!

Published on September 27, 2007

Various Letters to the Editor regarding previously published stories

Back to Center for YU?

By Gary Rosenblatt
Published on December 12, 2002

Will Richard Joel -- elected Dec. 5 as Yeshiva University's (YU) new president -- redirect the flagship institution of modern Orthodoxy from its rightward move of the past several decades back toward the center?

That's a question being asked in the halls of YU and throughout the community at the culmination of a long and difficult search process for a successor to Dr. Norman Lamm, who has guided the institution since 1976.

Continental Divide

Published on April 6, 2000

After a gay-rights vote, Reform and Orthodoxy glare at each other across an abyss of mutual incomprehension

A Gentler Orthodox Feminism

By Elicia Brown
Published on March 2, 2000

Where others saw three Orthodox women in groundbreaking careers and stylish hats, Rachel Pollack, 17, perceived something more. She had found role models.

A Battle With No Winners

Published on October 21, 1999

The High Holy Day period that just ended is, for most Jews, a time of solitary reflection, aptly called the Days of Awe for its mood of confrontation with the Eternal. For some of us, though, it's also a season for family togetherness, a cozy time to snuggle up with the ones you love most.

Los Angeles 5758Making the Tough Sell

By Julie G Fax
Published on March 26, 1998

There was no question: Of the three rabbis sitting up on the dais at UCLA Hillel,Rabbi Shlomo Riskin had the toughest sell. After all, audiences who come to hear panels on pluralism usually bristle at Orthodoxy's seeming exclusivity.

Other Voices

Published on March 12, 1998

The evening following the final session of theSecond International Conference on Feminism and Orthodoxy, I attendeda small family dinner and celebrated the wedding of a SatmarChassidic couple. Among the guests were men with long curledpayot (it'spronounced "payyes" there), and some wearing shtreimels (the fur hat worn bysome Chassidic men). All of the women's heads were covered with wigs,and some even wore a small pillbox hat atop it, according to thedecree of their respective rabbis. The women were elegantly (butmodestly) attired in unrevealing clothing and were segregated fromtheir men by tall walls. While the men sang joyously, the womengossiped. When the men rose to dance, most of the women werevicariously reveled by staring at them through the cracks in thewall. (Of course, it is forbidden for the men to watch the womendance, and not one single male deigned to take even a quick"peek.")