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Shabbos Nachamu The name conjures up, at least to the English-speakers that I know, a vast sigh of relief that the mourning period over [...]

A Tisha B'Av Primer To Avoiding Machlokes We left last week's article wondering about the reaction of the people at the vasikin minyan in [...]

We saw in part one of this series that there is a prohibition — according to some an actual Torah prohibition — to be [...]

Last week we saw what makes something a machlokes as opposed to a simple argument. We explained that the point of issur is reached [...]

YOU! Yes, you, the one reading this article: Are you Ashkenazi or Sephardi? Chassid or Misnaged? Dati Leumi or Chareidi? Anglo or Israeli? Belz [...]

a href="http://btya.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/logo-chadash-e1275560988767.jpg">This week's Torah reading has one of the most disturbing, and tragic, events which occurred in the Midbar, on par with the episode [...]

"Can I ever know which of the five areas listed (practical concerns; Halachic concerns of doing it right; Halachic grey areas; minority opinions; may [...]

A personal note of apology: Yes, this is my third attempt to write the final column on this topic; as you will soon see, [...]

In this article I will b’ezras Hashem summarize and encapsulate what we have learned, and I will suggest a derech in understanding the plethora of [...]

I ask the readers’ indulgence and mechilah; the final installment in the “Just What Are Mehadrin Standards ?” Series will appear be’ezras Hashem in [...]

Let us pause for a moment from our talk of airlines and chickens, and before going on to eiruvin, tefillin, mikva’os, and buses, let [...]