Rav Aharon Yehudah Leib Steinman ztz"l carried the weight of the Jewish People. Today we are all orphans,A Century In His Glow,Rav Aharon Yehudah Leib Steinman ztz"l carried the weight of the Jewish People. Today we are all orphans
Ten years after the largest-ever Ponzi scheme was exposed, Bernie Madoff’s thousands of investors are still trying to collect their money. Is our money any safer today?
Last week’s runoff elections for Jerusalem’s mayor might have had an uninspired 31% voter turnout. But for the yeshivish activists who took to the streets, and for Rav Chaim Kanievsky himself, it was a basic question of kevod Shamayim.
The losers & the winners: A reporter’s notebook, looking from the outside in
On the one side were opportunities that couldn’t be duplicated: access to the biggest celebrities, parties, perks, a job I loved and at which I excelled. On the other was the image of the Jewish home I wanted to build one day, and the profound feeling of wholeness I had in Jerusalem.
From Israeli Hesder yeshivos to New York’s Yeshiva University, from Modern Orthodox Young Israel congregations to Litvish study halls in Bnei Brak and Kiryat Sefer, it seems like everyone today is looking for the Baal Shem Tov