It seems like within every shabbos drash that my Rav, a U-Penn educated, gives over contains a story about a king and his son. The king and the son story is meant to be a rallying cry for the Jews…
Tag: mesorah
Are you pro-choice?
SAR is the first Modern Orthodox high school in New York to allow girls to put on tefillin and of course it’s created a huge debate on the internet between people who believe it’s a woman’s right to choose and…
Will frummies finally celebrate Thanksgiving this year?
Thanksgiving is one of the few goyishe holidays that is actually a debate in the frum community. Unlike most other goyishe holidays, Thanksgiving is a new world holiday and therefore there is some sort of mesorah to celebrate it. It…
Is THIS what they’re teaching our children?!
(Jerusalem) The oilam hatorah is in an uproar following revelations at a recent gathering of veteran educators, community activists and Rabbonim. “It’s really quite shocking nobody has made a fuss about it until now,” said one askan, “this is our…
Do you believe in the mesorah
A couple weeks ago I came to the brilliant epiphany that the Mesorah is the fact we have a Mesorah, meaning the tradition is to teach us that somehow over 80 generations or so we have managed to keep in…
New RCA siddur twists the mesorah
Matzav.com has got one thing going for them, they love writing long attacks on people who aren’t frum enough for them and I love it. Who would have imagined such vitriol for a revised siddur, I wonder what they will…