Steve Brizel writes: The Mandatory Half Shekel R. Yitzchak Adlerstein, based upon the teachings of the Nesivos Shalom, illustrates how and why personal growth is dependent on partnering with the greater community of Klal Yisrael: link Why Every Jew Counts R. Shlomo Riskin reminds us that while we ar...

When idols fall, the vibrations continue, they go on and on, and we never know when the last of the repercussions have died out, or if the echos will be even louder. That's how I feel about Rabbi Shlomo Riskin. For those of us who became religious in the mid-1960's, (pre-dating the term BT,) he was ...

How come so many Jews employ multiple names? From The Awareness Center: Over the last few years various individuals have been monitoring Rabbi Mordechai Gafni’s where abouts.  After fleeing Israel, Gafni took a brief respite in Boston, prior to moving to Salt Lake City, UT.  We notif...

Way back in the mid-1960's, we were wowed by stories of a young rabbi, who grew up just about a mile away from my childhood home. He was already a legend, having convinced his first rabbinic congregation to get off its "conservadox" fence and go all the way to Torah Judaism. Everyone referred to him...