As we are now in the season of teshuvah, the theme of cheshbon hanefesh [introspection] abounds throughout the Jewish world. It would certainly be wonderful if each one of us could say, “I have gone through the past year of my life without erring in action or judgment, whether through commission or omission.” But this […]
Wearing a yarmulke or a Magen David suddenly became fraught in many American cities.
At the same time, there is a silver lining: many of us have newly internalized that our security ultimately depends solely on Hashem. Millions of chapters of Tehillim have been recited. Prayer has taken on a new urgency.
The problem with outrage goes beyond derech eretz or how one should speak to another human being. It evinces a lack of respect.