Reviewing: “Bright Beginnings Workbook Eilu Metzios Vol. 1” by Rabbi Aaron Spivak/Rabbi Yakov Horowitz. Israel Book Shop. 2018. Paperback. 128 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0996349765. Imagine a fifth

Highlighting: “The Crowns on the Letters: Essays on the Aggada and the Lives of the Sages” By Rabbi Ari Kahn. OU Press. 2020. English. Hardcover.

Reviewing: “Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas,” by Yaacob Dweck. Princeton University Press. 2019. English. Hardcover.  504 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0691183572. Visit a Satmar community, and

Reviewing “Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age” by Ayala Fader. Princeton University Press. Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology (27). 2020. English. 288

In my article last week, I wrote of a widespread email scam that attempted to get people to send hundreds of dollars of iTunes gift

Last week, a member of the PassaicJews mailing list had their email account hacked. The attacker then sent a message to everyone in the person’s

Reviewing: “Tribal Blueprints: Twelve Brothers and the Destiny of Israel,” by Nechama Price. Maggid Books. 2020. English. Hardcover. 308 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1592645459. With a few

Reviewing: “Tzurba M’Rabanan—Volumes 1-5,” by Benzion Algazi. Doron Podlashuk, Eli Ozarowski, translators. Mizrachi Press. 2019. Paperback. English. 344 pages. One of the challenges of learning

Reviewing: “Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism,” by Schneur Zalman Newfield. Temple University Press. 2020. English. Paperback. 248 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1439918968. While

Reviewing: “Rav Noach Weinberg: Torah Revolutionary,” by Yonasson Rosenblum. Mosaica Press. 2020. English. Hardcover. 454 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1946351876. Two sentences into the long-awaited biography “Rav

Reviewing: “Ani Maamin: Biblical Criticism, Historical Truth, and the Thirteen Principles of Faith,” By Joshua Berman. Maggid Books. 2020. English. Hardcover. 334 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1592645381. There

With four days of Yom Tov and Shabbat Chol Hamoed, no walks to shul—or outside, for that matter, Pesach was a time for learning and