I. What Is Transgenderism? Transgenderism has been in the news lately, with Bruce Jenner’s transition to Caitlyn and President Obama’s executive order on bathroom usage.

Why Open Orthodoxy Is Not Orthodox, By David Rosenthal, forward by Rav Aharon Feldman, Paperback, $12.49: 278 pages, Yad Yosef Publications (June 19, 2016).  

The concept of tradition evokes powerful emotions in religious debates. While less orthodox religious streams give tradition a vote, but not a veto, the more

The source of idolatry, among the gravest offenses a religious person can commit, lies atop a slippery slope. It comes not from a search for

The New York Times surprised many readers on February 20, when it published a human-interest story about a weekly tennis game among three rabbis and

When I was a non-religious teenager exploring Orthodoxy, I was looking for something different. I had no need for a religion that supported the values

The recent frenzy over the billion dollar-plus Powerball prize raises a serious question about the halachic and moral viability of lotteries. There is more to

Some years, my busy season intersects with Chanukah and I cannot get home from work until very late. On those nights, my family lights the

Jonathan Pollard is scheduled this week for release after spending 30 years in prison. He was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to

The classic work “Chafetz Chaim” on the laws of lashon hara, damaging language, was written well over a century ago. In the intervening years, the

I often hear complaints that the Jewish community does not discuss the big questions of life. “Big Questions” address all-important issues of purpose: who we