Another Face Of Yeshiva University
Nahum (Neal) Twersky Special To TheJewishWeek.com There is a narrative that Yeshiva University has shifted to the right, religiously-speaking. I attended the recent leadership retreat sponsored by...
View ArticlePurim: The Importance of Democracy
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz Jewish Week Online Columnist One year ago, Libyan dictator Muammar Kaddafy’s troops were marching toward Benghazi, the unofficial capital of the Libyan rebels. Kaddafy was...
View ArticleRabbi Herschel Schacter, Chaplain At Buchenwald Liberation, Dies At 95
Staff Report Rabbi Herschel Schacter, a national Jewish leader and the only Jewish chaplain present at the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, died Thursday at the age of 95.read more
View ArticleNot What He Meant
Rabbi Menachem Penner Rabbi Avi Weiss' recent essay distorts the Rav's position on centralized rabbinic authority. In his essay opposing central religious authority (“In the Legacy of the Rav,”...
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