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Gedalia Guttentag

Gedalia Guttentag

Gedalia Guttentag is Mishpacha’s news and features editor. He studied for more than a decade in the Mir yeshiva, and is active in Jewish education.

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Worldview
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Like It or Not, Israel Is You
Archive
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Ep 7. The Baal Teshuva
In an era when intellectuals were celebrities, Dr Nathan Birnbaum was a household name across the Jewish world. When one of the most famous secular Jews of the age rediscovered Ha ...
Magazine Feature
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Close Call    
Kav Halacha’s Rabbi Shimon Sofer: “Klal Yisrael wants to know, and they’re picking up the phone to find out more”
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Ep 6. Forgotten Founder
 Ten years before Theodor Herzl attended the Dreyfus Trial, a Jewish law student from Vienna coined the term Zionism, and effectively founded the movement that Herzl later too ...
Worldview
Tuesday, September 09, 2025
Coffee with Kareem    
If I didn't know it before, coffee with Kareem taught me one thing: Hashem incontrovertibly runs the world — often in unexpected ways
Wednesday, September 03, 2025
Ep 5: Missing Mussar
A century ago, Elul in the great yeshivas of Europe was soaked with the spirit of the Mussar movement, which was soon to vanish in the flames of World War Two. Rav Yisrael Salante ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Ep 4: Tragedy and Teshuva
If Hitler’s rise brought German Jews back to shul, and 1967 to 1973 triggered the baal teshuva movement, what does October 7 mean for Jewish faith? Join Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Galin ...
Voice of History
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Voice of History
Rabbi Berel Wein: An unquenchable love for the greatest saga of all — the survival of his people
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Ep. 3 The Dayan Who Faced Down Moshe Dayan
As public pressure mounts to draft yeshiva bochurim in the wake of a war, the Israeli defense minister meets a delegation of senior roshei yeshiva. The late 1960’s encounter betwe ...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Ep. 2 The Brisker Talmid Who Saved an Empire
In the mid-20th century, the Reform movement conquered America, yet in Britain it failed to make headway – and a key reason for that failure was a talmid of Rav Chaim Soloveitchik ...
Tribute
Tuesday, August 05, 2025
The Smile That Changed Lives
From Yerushalayim to Gateshead, Rav Moshe Chaim Dunner ztz”l was a beacon of avodas Hashem and middos who uplifted all who came into contact with him
Worldview
Tuesday, August 05, 2025
Where Are the Men? 
Politics is ultimately about having a strong character. But the fact is that most politicians in the West don’t. They are slick operators, not leaders