Yitzchok Adlerstein
By Yitzchok Adlerstein
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Opinion Hekhsher Tzedek’s Law Problem
The Jewish community has been roiled by the continuing charges against kosher meat giant Agriprocessors. Kosher consumers are angry that practices which are supposed to bring credit to Jewish tradition are instead sullying its image. But Jews have been divided on how to respond. The Conservative movement has proposed a new kind of certification, called…
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Opinion There Can Only Be One Law of the Land
Earlier this month Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams stunned much of his own church and the rest of the world by saying that it seems unavoidable that elements of Sharia will be adopted into the British legal system. His argument was that doing so would make the law of the land more palatable to Muslims,…
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Opinion A Tradition That Embraces Looking to the Heavens
In the 18th century the great talmudist Rabbi Yonatan Eybeschutz penned a commentary to Genesis arguing that the Tower of Babel was not really a tower at all. Rather, he wrote, it was a chamber in which the burning of fuel would propel the edifice toward the heavens. We need not worry, however, that President…
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