The following letter was given to JLBCto print because its author, a frum Jew, believes we must monitor and be fully aware of some of

Da’as-Torah—the idea that there is a “Torah view” on everything—has taken hold of the Orthodox world.  And how can it not?  If indeed the Torah,

Allow us to introduce ourselves. My name is Gershon Distenfeld and for the past several years I have been heavily involved in efforts to make

So let me get this straight- the current schools are bad and expensive. Kids don’t feel engaged- they told you so. And they don’t like

In the last number of years there has been great media and literary attention paid to the phenomenon of members of the Haredi community who

I have kept my time-worn copy of Roget’s Thesaurus in my personal library since I was in the seventh grade. It was given to me

For twenty years I have led presentations on Kinot every Tisha B’Av morning. It therefore felt most appropriate for me to respond affirmatively to the

For all of its length, Parashat Pinchas contains only three stories, and a wistful sadness underlies all three of them.  The parsha opens with the

Jewish people teach Jewish values to their children, and to all who wish to be informed about their faith. If one is asked,“Should I or

According to tradition, Messiah is born on Tisha B’Av. It also stands to reason that the redemption of the Jews can only follow their exile.

Introduction: Because of the controversy regarding Hareidim and their role in Israeli society, there are members of the rabbanut in Israel and America who have

Isaac Asimov was right. The dangers of artificial intelligence that he foreshadowed in his collection of short stories, I, Robot, are coming true today, most