Amar’e Stoudemire is sparking joy for Haredi Jews like me
Watching Stoudemire share the journey of what seems to be a Haredi transition, brings me and my friends an inexplicable joy.
What the world can learn from the Orthodox response to COVID
What Haredi communities did should serve as the basis for a national strategy for controlling the pandemic: identify, test, isolate, and trace.
I’m a Jewish conservative. We’re also furious about George Floyd’s murder.
Despite what people think about those who don’t identify as “progressive,” most of us are already wide awake, already angry.
Why Trump, warrior of the faithful, has my vote
People of faith are being marginalized more and more, and their values are now being rebranded as hateful to drive them from the public square.
Everything we relied on has failed us. Where can we turn but to God?
In the age of coronavirus, the words take on extra meaning, highlighting my understanding of the starkest changes this virus has wrought on the world.
Blacks and Orthodox Jews are being unfairly targeted. It’s a reminder that we’re in this together.
Blacks and Orthodox Jews are in the fight to be treated as equals and respected as humans together. Thanks, NYPD, for the reminder.
The loss of the Novominsker Rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, leaves a gaping hole in our community
The Novominsker Rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, was a giant in our community. His death of coronavirus is a huge loss.
In the face of coronavirus, our homes must become shuls and yeshivas
The building we had built, and all the dreams we had for it, the celebrations and Torah we had planned for it, would now have to all be put on hold.
How not to talk about coronavirus in the Orthodox community
Criticizing one community just because they are struggling with something the entire world is trying to figure out how to deal with is just wrong.
How can we trust the media when they lie about our community?
People tend to lean back on things they recognize, on things that are familiar to them. Reporters are no different.