There are three important Jewish holidays celebrating Jewish redemption each of which is the historical template and precursor of the establishment of the First, Second and Third Jewish Temples.
Part 5: The Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil
Part 4: Shabbos as the source of all holiness.
Part 3: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Founders and Pillars of the Jewish People.
Part 2: Stages and Patterns of World and Jewish History
There were general themes that emerged that were constants like axioms and premises in the vast Torah intellectual structure that Rav Hutner taught and built.
Difficult choices during difficult times. The Arabs of the Gaza Strip backed the wrong horse in this race and lost. They should pay for it. Op-ed.
Israel's army of Jewish soldiers is well aware of what genocide means because the Jewish People suffered a real genocide at the hands of the Nazis. There were no international aid organizations and shipments to relieve the suffering and hunger of Jews as they were shipped off to death camps. Op-ed.
A reality check for the world about Israel and the Jews..
A reality check for the world about Israel and the Jews.
A reality check for the world about Israel and the Jews. Part I.
Torah Templates of the past predict future patterns of Jewish History and Destiny.
The marriage of Esau the progenitor of Rome and the West to the daughter of Yishmael is no passing "romantic interlude" but a prediction.
Samson in war and peace as a metaphor for today's Israel.
The horrifying toll of Russia, China, Turkey, Iran, Arabs waging war and violating human rights. Look who criticizes Israel.
The ten tests of Abraham (according to Maimonides).
Bitter truths from Kohelet-Ecclesiastes that was read in Synagogues on Shabbat Shemini Atzeret October 7, 2023.
Every decade since 1948 a new episode of violence erupts and Israel wins, with G-d's help. Here is how Israel can keep on winning.
One can learn much from a Gadol's customs and behavior, sometimes as much or more than from his lectures.
On Yom Kippur Rav Hutner was restrained but he became very animated during the recitation of the Kohen Gadol's Avoda.
You have a lot in common with Adam and Eve if you are a freshman at university. Read on.
The American Yeshiva Community educates its young women to seek only full time learning mates, and the field narrows to nothing.
Where is the new outreach/inreach initiative by Belz heading?
Rav Schechter's passing is not just the changing of an era but is the closing of an era. Tribute to an inspiring leader and Talmid Chacham.
Would it lead to increased divorce rates?
We need to overcome the "Shidduch Crisis."
For Tu B'Av, a plan: Encourage singles to remain in and get married in America and then move as couples to Israel. Op-ed.
These were multi-talented and multifaceted Torah personalities who were close to Rav Yitzchok Hutner and followed close in his footsteps.
Dare one look for "religious" explanations for the war, the "returnees", and the rise of Orthodox Jewish education?
The zeal,and single-mindedness of the various rebbes is remarkable. They came out of the hellish Holocaust with one aim: Judaism's survival.
Sixth in a series about the rise of Jewish and Torah education in America after the Holocaust.
Mir and Telshe rose from the ashes of Europe's Torah world. Mir in Israel has over 9000 students and is possibly the largest yeshiva today
A post-Holocaust American haven for 'Yavneh and its Sages' was created by Rav Kotler zt"l.:
In Tribute to Rav Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz and Dr. Joseph Kaminetsky, Torah pioneers in America.
In America, frustration mingled with hope during the Holocaust.
There is no greater work of Kiruv than the inspired work of two self-made women who did not have an Orthodox upbringing.
A righteous woman of supreme greatness, she established the BJJ seminary for young women at her father, Rav Yitschok Hutner's request.
First in a series about the rise of Jewish and Torah education in America after the Holocaust.
Painful choices over apostasy.
The Holocaust saw Jews facing death with dignity when God demanded martyrdom.
Debate over the name and timeline from 1933 to 1945.
Arabs were for the most part apathetic to the Allied cause, while God saved the Sephardic Jews.
How G-d saved the Jews from their worst enemies. Exceptions to total genocide.
An ally of the West becomes a Vichy collaborator with Nazi Germany, yet God saves three quarters of France's Jews.
God turns nations around and saves Jews from annihilation. Part III of How the Allies came to be in WWII. Links to parts I and II are below.
The real title should be how God turns nations around and saves the Jews from total annihilation.
Intermarriage in the USA has complicated the teshuva process, but in Israel it is going strong. And let us not forget Chabad. A critique.
The Allies in WWII Series: Part I, British and French appeasement of Nazi Germany.
Concluding article of a historical series on South African Jewry.
He was a military and spiritual leader of the Jewish Brigade, a main nucleus of the reborn modern Israel’s Israel Defense Force,
Tales of thousands of good Jews who, while not as religious as their parents had been, gave charity and created a model Jewish community.
Continuing with the series of articles on foreign born rabbis who have served and become famous in South Africa.
Continuing the series about foreign born rabbis who selflessly served South African Jewry over decades.
There are a number of famous “rabbinical couples” that moved to South Africa and made their mark. The Tanzers are a case in point.
Every country where Jews have lived has its own Jewish history. A rabbi reminisces, stories about a once thriving Jewish community. Op-ed.
Stories that will touch your heart from “With Ink in the Book...Stories and Sketches of Jewish Life in Rural Centers in South Africa."
The rural South Africa Jewish community goes from observant to ignorant in the span of less than a century and this rabbi recorded it.
In a sense, Rav Hutner during his lifetime existed beyond time and place. Last of a series. Links to previous articles are below.
The epic story of a Gadol Hador who worked to open a yeshiva in Eretz Yisrael and was in close contact with the Torah luminaries there.
Gedolim, like Rav Kook, with whom Rav Hutner connected in the Land of Israel, were born in Eastern Europe. Part IV of a series.
