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Two famous icons of anti-religious culture: what caused them to go otd?
Rabbi Katz analyzes two stories from a recent book on Polish Jewry as reflecting personal as well as cultural reasons for leaving Yiddishkeit
2 years, 3 months ago
The “Old Haskalah” - Comfortably Nestled within Cultural Insularity
From Rabbi Katz’ 2017 Summer Lecture Series entitled: Kulturkampf-Haskalah: The Haskalah Wars - Lecture 1
2 years, 3 months ago
Do you fire a good leader because they are old?
The prophet Samuel's Class Act
2 years, 3 months ago
How could Korach successfully challenge the bona fides of Moses? After מַתַּן תּוֹרָה!
Did the Korach episode really happen in פָּרָשַׁת כִּי תִּשָּׂא?
2 years, 3 months ago
Pirkei Avos chapter 3: the social interaction aspect of piety
הַכֹּל צָפוּי וְהָרְשׁוּת נְתוּנָה- an outstanding example of the difference between ashkenaz and sephard
2 years, 3 months ago
Herzl's unsuccessful attempts to find a country who would get the Turks to give up Palestine
The British offer to create a State of Israel...in Africa!
2 years, 3 months ago
The remarkable career of רָחָב
What about לֹא תְחַיֶּה כָּל נְשָׁמָה?
2 years, 3 months ago
Parshas Shlach and October 7th
Intelligence has two parts: a.) Information gathering b.) Information assessment (connecting the dots)
2 years, 3 months ago
R’ Chanina Sgan Kohanim and His Conservative Political Philosophy (Avos Ch. 3)
Living through the horrors of Jewish anarchy, he preferred Roman tyranny with all its faults
2 years, 3 months ago
Herzl, Political Zionism, and the Campus Riots, Pt. 6
Why was political Zionism perceived as מְטַמֵּא אֶת הַטְּהוֹרִים אֲבָל מְטַהֵר אֶת הַטְּמֵאִים?
2 years, 3 months ago