by Special to Cross-Currents · September 9, 2026
Most people view life through a keyhole. We see only a small fragment of reality and assume that what lies before our eyes is all that exists. Yet, the most powerful forces in the...
by Yitzchok Adlerstein · August 26, 2026
If you have spent the last three years sitting on the fence—watching what has happened to the public image of Torah, disturbed by it, but unwilling to do anything about it—your days of comfortable...
by Yitzchok Adlerstein · August 4, 2026
The Day Has Arrived I wasn’t expecting this. The day that charedim in Israel would say, “Enough is enough. We work for a living, and refuse to be treated any longer as second class...
by Special to Cross-Currents · August 2, 2026
By Rabbi Yehuda L Oppenheimer In two recent Mishpacha articles—“A Manufactured Deadlock” and “Friend or Foe?”— Eli Paley presents what many readers may regard as a compelling defense of the Chareidi position on army...
by Yitzchok Adlerstein · July 28, 2026
My response to Rabbi Broyde is intentionally brief. I don’t really disagree with many of his points – just the central one. He does not overstate the sense of distaste for the charedi Torah...
Most people view life through a keyhole. We see only a small fragment of reality and assume that what lies before our eyes is all that exists. Yet, the most powerful forces in the...
If you have spent the last three years sitting on the fence—watching what has happened to the public image of Torah, disturbed by it, but unwilling to do anything about it—your days of comfortable...
The Day Has Arrived I wasn’t expecting this. The day that charedim in Israel would say, “Enough is enough. We work for a living, and refuse to be treated any longer as second class...
By Rabbi Yehuda L Oppenheimer In two recent Mishpacha articles—“A Manufactured Deadlock” and “Friend or Foe?”— Eli Paley presents what many readers may regard as a compelling defense of the Chareidi position on army...
My response to Rabbi Broyde is intentionally brief. I don’t really disagree with many of his points – just the central one. He does not overstate the sense of distaste for the charedi Torah...
Rabbi Michael J. Broyde Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein’s recent Cross-Currents post, “Shooting the Praiseworthy Messenger,” raises an important point about the current Charedi draft crisis. He writes that if we want more soldiers in the...
Wise words from R. Yeruchem Levovitz, zt”l, that may be helpful to some readers. They are a paraphrase of his commentary to Bereishis 22:1. [Thanks to my son, R. Akiva Adlerstein, menahel of the...
Rabbi Blau is indeed correct. I chose not to engage in a point by point refutation of his original Facebook post, for reasons that I made clear. Namely, his objections had nothing to do...
by Rabbi Yitzchak Blau Rabbi Adlerstein correctly writes that he does not engage in a point by point refutation. In fact, he only responds to one of my thirteen criticisms of Rabbi Karlinsky; thus,...
Eli Paley, Mishpacha�s publisher, is a great guy. I say that, having met and conversed with him. He is a responsible iconoclast, carefully staying within the straight and narrow of his community, understanding what...
