Who Is Responsible for the California Wildfires? By: Rabbi Yosef Greenwald The recent severe fires in northern California, with the ensuing tragic loss of life and of property, gives us all pause to reflect on the great chasadim of Hashem…
Adapted from the writings of Rav Shmuel Honigwachs The Pittsburgh nurse speaks. I am The Jewish Nurse. Yes, that Jewish Nurse. The same one that people are talking about in the Pittsburgh shooting that left 11 dead. The trauma nurse…
Adapted from a shiur by Rav Yosef Greenwald Professional party politics, properly played. Thanksgiving opens the American “holiday season,” which culminates in New Year’s Day. For a Jew working in a non-Jewish office, this period often features events and practices…
Rav Micha Cohn One of the many practical ramifications of sanctions in the middle east relates to the price of crude oil. This drop or increase is attributed to many factors: increased U.S.…
Adapted from the writings of Rav Ariel Ovadia Is a facilitator liable for the actions of others? People of the ‘book In the past 30 days, 3 out of every 10 people on the planet—some 2,227,000,000 souls—accessed their Facebook accounts.…
By Rav Yosef Greenwald The terrible tragedy that occurred in Pittsburgh left us all with a sense that we are not as safe as we’d like to be. Many people want to increase the security of our public institutions. To…
Highlights of a shiur by Rav Daniel Dombroff A plane on the tarmac is a flight risk. El Al Flight 002 was scheduled to depart JFK for Tel Aviv on Thursday, November 15 at 6:30 pm. Long story short: It…
Are You Your Brother’s Keeper? Your naïve, young nephew is about to enter into a business venture that your experienced business acumen tells you is doomed to failure. Your elderly mother-in-law would do far better in a senior care…
California is burning. The state’s current wildfires, the worst on record, have ravaged enormous swaths of terrain and devastated thousands of families. At press time, the conflagrations engulf 235,000 acres. Nearly 8000 homes have been destroyed, hundreds of thousands of…
By Rav Yitzhak Grossman I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you. Mesira—the enabling of hostile actors to seize property of, or cause harm to, Jews—is a serious aveira. A number of poskim have discussed the propriety…