Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman October 1, 2021 A New Yorker article describes the plight of Mark Frerichs, an American Navy veteran and skilled engineer, carpenter, electrician, and mechanic who was captured by the Taliban in…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman September 17, 2021 There is a well-known fable of a Jew who built a sukkah in violation of a local ordinance. Someone complained, and on Erev Sukkos, the matter came before…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman September 10, 2021 President Biden has faced widespread criticism[1] over his withdrawal from Afghanistan, much of it directed against the breaking of his commitment that “if there’s American citizens left, we’re…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman September 2, 2021 In the wake of President Biden’s withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and the subsequent fall of Kabul to the Taliban and the stranding of thousands of U.S.…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman August 26, 2021 Shmuel Silverberg, a nineteen-year-old yeshiva student, was fatally shot last week in front of Yeshiva Toras Chaim in Denver, in the culmination of a crime spree that included…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman August 19, 2021 Several months ago, Peter Kacherginsky and Rebecca Rose “got married on the blockchain”: In addition to a traditional Jewish ceremony, we wanted to solidify our vows in a…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman August 12, 2021 Federal authorities recently seized seventeen items, including “funeral scrolls, prayers for the dead, rules governing how a community member should behave in society, and other records,” from Kestenbaum &…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman August 5, 2021 Over the past several years, social media companies have increasingly engaged in the censorship of people and ideas that they say are wrong, dangerous to society, or dangerous to…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman July 29, 2021 In the previous article, we considered various rulings of R’ Shlomo Zalman Auerbach regarding the withholding of medical treatment and life support from a terminally ill and suffering…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman July 22, 2021 The world has recently been gripped by the heartbreaking saga of Alta Fixsler, a two-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl who sustained severe brain damage during her birth, whose doctors at…