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Science and the Sages
Rabbi Hershel Schachter, rosh yeshivah at Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and OU posek, speaks with Jewish Action about the conflict between Torah and science. Jewish...
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Sherlock Holmes, Rabbinic-Style
It began with a text message. Rav [Dovid] Stav* wants you to call him. I called. “There’s a young [secular] woman whose mother is originally from [a city in South America]. All we have is her parents’...
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Jewish Genealogy: The Journey to Oneself
Michoel Jakubowicz, the author’s father, photographed at his bar mitzvah in Sieradz, Poland, 1930. From left to right: The bar mitzvah boy’s mother, Bayla Sheva (nee Kochman), for whom the author is...
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Chanukah’s Coming: Ta’am to Make the Latkes
Daniella Silver’s Parsnip Potato Latkes Photo: EyeCandyTo I’ve never met a latke I didn’t like. Chanukah is still one of my favorite holidays, and to me, hot, crispy latkes taste best straight from the...
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Top Ten Online Torah Resources
I used to be a regular visitor to the New York Public Library’s Dorot Division, consulting its vast collection of rabbinic texts with the assistance of its expert librarians. While I treasure the...
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Brown V. Board of Education: An Orthodox Cause?
Children on the first day of desegregation in Fort Myer Elementary School in Fort Myer, Va,. in September, 1954. Photo: Corbis Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, remembering Orthodox Jewry...
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Collected Essays, Vol. I
Collected Essays, Vol. I By Haym Soloveitchik Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Oxford, 2013 352 pages Reviewed by Jeffrey R. Woolf Professor Haym Soloveitchik is the leading contemporary...
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Warning: Hollywood’s Coming for Your Home and Children
Screenwriter Clashes with Scary Hollywood Executive, Part I The studio executive hated me. Or at least, she hated a critical exchange in my script, A Stranger Among Us. The scene is between Leah (Mia...
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What’s the Truth about . . . the Korbanot?
Misconception: Leading authorities including Rambam and Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook maintain that korbanot, animal sacrifices, will not be reinstated in the time of the Third Temple but will...
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Rekindling the Flame: Neo-Chassidus Brings the Inner Light of Torah to Modern...
By Barbara Bensoussan Photo: Dov Lenchevsky Editor’s Note: This magazine’s policy has always been to use Sephardic pronunciation, unless an author is known to use Ashkenazic pronunciation. Because in...
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