If one were to glance around the frum news world on the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, one may have noticed a dearth of reporting on the subject. I’ve always wondered about the frum worlds lack of Holocaust talk, but I…
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What does Yom Hashoah mean to you?
Holocaust remembrance day is not only about the past, it’s about the future, in my mind it’s not only a day of mourning and remembrance, but a day to celebrate our survival. Like any normal person, I have thousands of…
How do you feel about the Shoah?
The Craigslist ad below has some perfectly reasonable questions in the grand scheme of things. If you’re about to have a craigslist shabbat meal you’re bound to get some pretty strange and animated responses. Everyone has an opinion on hairy…
Rarely am I so captivated by a speech
I don’t typically like speeches, hate may be a strong word, but I do space out or read something else. Tonight at the end of Maariv I picked up the Rav Shlomo Freifeld biography and couldn’t put it down, I…