On 11/27/24, erev Thanksgiving 2024, I wondered whether Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and the Rov, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, were ...

Once, when Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik was a young man living in New York, he was waiting for the subway when a woman pushed him and herself into the tracks. A train was approaching, and he struggled to ...

As a member of a family of world-renowned Talmudic scholars with a history that stretches more than 200 years, Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik had by 1983 more than measured up to his heritage. He was ...

I recently read the widely circulated article concerning the Streits matzo controversy. Although I am completely an unbiased reader (I have never met any of the individuals the article gravitates ...

Rabbi Moshe Twersky has been identified as one of the four people killed in a Jerusalem synagogue during morning services. Twersky, 60, was the son of rabbi and author Rabbi Yitzhak Twersky of Boston, ...

I am including as a post below a letter from Yitzchak Zev Soloveichik commenting on my post in Morethodoxy regarding outside influences on Halacha. Yizchak Zev is the grandson of Rav Ahron Soloveichik ...

Deciding a wrenching legal dispute between parents over the fate of their son, a Cook County judge on Thursday refused to order potentially life-prolonging surgery for a cancer-stricken 12-year-old ...

We are winning the war on child abuse. We shall fight this war until we win. We shall fight the abusers in the yeshivas, the synagogues, the mikvehs. We shall fight them in the hills, the valleys, on ...

“And Moshe and Aharon went into the Tent of Meeting. Then they came out and blessed the people, and the glory of Hashem appeared to all the people” (Vayikra 9:23). Why, indeed, did every person take ...

While the entire Torah is read from cover to cover over the course of one year, there are only a few verses that we are formally obligated to hear. These include the last three verses of the Portion ...

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