From Hirhurim: Jewish schools - in every generation, but especially in an era of openness and choices - have a crucial responsibility concurrent with their job of teaching Jewish literacy and texts. They have to also teach them to value, love and desire to participate in Jewish life (in educational ...

From Hirhurim: R. Dr. Moshe Bernstein, a Professor of Bible at Yeshiva College, writes a very eloquent (and surprisingly forceful) opinion piece on the Kugel incident (link) in the current issue of The Commentator (link): Why Lines Need to be Drawn (and Where) When a writer for The Commentator asked...

Thirty five years ago, the presidency of Yeshiva University almost went to intellectual Emmanuel Rackman. In a few years, it will likely go to administrator Steven Weil. Rabbi Jack Riemer writes in The Jewish Week: Rabbi Rackman is still ahead of the times, and unfortunately, more ahead of it all th...

Stunned, lamenting, action. In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy that struck Mumbai, India on November 26th and 27th, Chabad took action. In tremendous ways, the ultra-orthodox Hassidic Jews redirected their grief into positive action in order to combat the evil that quaked their world. "This w...

I am ashamed of Mr. Madoff...but he doesn't represent Jews worldwide. What he has done, though, has awakened and reinforced the old stereotypes that we had hoped would die away with the Nazis and the communists. For that, Bernie, there has to be a special place in Hell for you. May your name be blot...

Yeshiva University is grappling with a sense of betrayal that extends beyond $110 million it says it lost in investments with Bernard L. Madoff....

YU President Richard Joel sent out a letter Tuesday stating that the university lost $110 million, or 8%, of their endowment that had been invested with J. Ezra Merkin’s Ascot Partners; Ascot Partners had in turn invested their entire funds with Madoff.  The letter also states that the school...

Yes, but is it good for the Jews? That's the punch line of a long-running joke among those of us who grew up among Jewish parents and grandparents whose first reaction to almost any event would be to calculate how it would affect the tribe. Looking at life through such a parochial lens is hardly ......

Bernie Madoff The revelation that Bernard Madoff, a well-known and well-respected hedge fund manager and founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, was running an elaborate Ponzi scheme, is still reverberating through the greater financial community in general, and the Jewish world in p...

Gadi Pickholz emails: Chairman of Yeshiva University Syms School of Business indicted in one of the largest ponzi schemes in history, as much as $50 BILLION — not million. Sorry, something is fundamentally wrong. From an analytic and statistical approach, the sheer concentration of indictments...