Avnei Nezer ( Yoreh Deah 312:sk30) rebuts Chasam Sofer and rules that the concept of inheriting a position of prominence pertains even to the position of rosh yeshiva.

With Homan in the Capitol building, Democrats hastily rallied together, leaving debates behind in the Senate and Assembly chambers to show their disdain toward the Trump administration and Homan in pa ...

Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, a former aide to Republican Governor George Pataki and former CUNY trustee, said people should be taking Mamdani’s candidacy more seriously.

Over the years, the Kibbutz movement has produced nearly 1,000 distinct iterations of the Haggadah. Each of these versions carries within it a unique vision of Jewish identity, shaped by the values of ...

Collins was a passionate critic of antisemitism, as to which he advised his troops: “I know that there exists, in some divisions, what your people call antisemitism. It will not be tolerated in my d ...

What is the secret of our redemption? What is necessary to bring it about, and why does the Messiah seem to tarry so long, so eternally long?

It is interesting to note that while everyone assumes that the drowning of the Egyptians in the Red Sea was punishment middah k’neged middah for drowning our children in the Nile, this is really not ...

When Hashem judges us and confers upon us the things we deserve in this world, our Sages teach, He responds to us middah keneged middah, in a manner befitting the conduct we have exhibited.

In Tanach, the root “shakaf” means “to look” or “to be seen.” Recently, the term “hashkafa” has been used to refer to our outlook on life. As opposed to the term “machshava ...

I take issue with the kol korei (public proclamation) concerning the upcoming World Zionist Organization elections that has been issued by Agudath Israel of America. While I believe that the ...

The vast majority of Israelis seem finally to have understood that the goal of Palestinian organizations is not to create a state living in peace alongside Israel, but to destroy Israel.