by R. Gil Student In the recently published Winter 2021 issue of Jewish Action, I review the following three books: Places in the Parasha: Biblical Geography and Its Meaning by Prof. Yoel Elitzur The Making of a Mentsch: The Laws and Parameters of Interpersonal Mitzvos by R. Moshe Walter Torah IQ: The Great Torah Riddle Book by David Woolf Places in ...

by R. Daniel Z. Feldman Commentary and insights into the third portion of Parashas Vayeshev. If you cannot see anything below, click on this link. See here for past weeks: here

by Rabbi Gil Student link to audio In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl on the significance of living in Canaan, 2) Rav Shaul Yisraeli on Yosef’s wisdom, 3) Pri Megadim on Yosef’s self-sacrifice, 4) Taz and Rav David Pardo on why Ya’akov could not be comforted, 5) Meshech Chochmah on the butler’s dream. Subscribe to Five Quick ...

• Conference of European Rabbis opposes proposed conversion legislation • Chareidi Zionism • The View from Pew: Where We Are – Jewish Action • The View from Pew: Where Do We Go from Here?

• Y Menken – Giving Thanks Is Important, Spiritually and Patriotically • If current trends continue, which is always a big if – Nearly 1 in 3 Israeli Jews will be haredi Orthodox by 2050, per Israeli economic projections • Cappadocia: The history of the Shabbat candles • How the expansion of the term “conversion therapy” may threaten religious freedom – ...

• National survey on youth and religion raises concern about Gen-Z Jews — and questions about how to understand them • Our Chinuch in Crisis — Who Will Teach Our Children? • Honest Skokie High School Students Turn In Hundreds Of Dollars That Fall From Armored Car

by R. Gil Student Often, when social circumstances change significantly from the past, some people automatically assume that Jewish law must change. Others summarily dismiss the suggestion that the law will ever change. Both approaches are incorrect. Rather, these matters require careful and sensitive analysis by the leading scholars to determine the nature of the law and whether the change ...

by R. Gil Student Over the past few decades, there has been a trend among Bible scholars to try to find flaws in the biblical heroes. There is much to say about the impetus for this trend and its methodological assumptions. I would like to explore here one aspect of this issue. Is there, within traditional Judaism, a theological problem ...

• R D Fischer – LGBTQIA+ is not our cause célèbre • CJV – Will 450 Progressive Rabbis Apologize for Antisemitic Scapegoating? • Ruins of a Hellenistic fortress show ‘tangible evidence’ of Hanukkah story, Israeli archaeologists say

by Rabbi Gil Student link to audio In less than ten minutes: 1) Rav Moshe Feinstein on preconditions for peace, 2) Rav Ya’akov Ettlinger on sending messengers before you, 3) Rav Yosef Karo on Ya’akov’s detailed instructions, 4) Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik on acting like gedolim, 5) the Taz on the need to prevent future attacks. Subscribe to Five Quick ...