The Talmudic sages inform us that the deceased are forgotten by future generations, and that this fate befalls even great rabbis and personalities. Such is the case with the subject of the volume under review, Rabbi Dr. Samuel Belkin, the second president of Yeshiva College, which is now known as Yeshiva University (YU). Although Dr. […]
Once, over Shabbat lunch at the lovely little restaurant attached to Bevis Marks Synagogue in London, I was told a joke told by Augustus Gomez De Mesquita—(“but you must call me ‘Gus’”)—the ninety-year-old scion of the illustrious family of cantors at that venerable institution, apropos his long and lofty-sounding name. It seems that the concierge […]
Read about the humor and resilience of Judy Gruen’s journey to Orthodox Judaism, the practical wisdom of Dr. Jacob L. Freedman’s psychiatric advice, and the insights of Rabbi Shaul Rosenblatt on meaningful prayer.
The Halachic Haircutting Handbook: A Breakthrough Exposure of an Obscure Mitzvah (Second Edition) By Rabbi Chaim and Binyamin Jachter Kol Torah, 2023 107 pages Over the past few years, a plethora of books and articles—most of them sent to my house without my permission by an enthusiastic opponent of shaving—have been published that argue that […]