Like everyone else, I was smitten by the horror video posted regarding the state of Safrus today. I needed clarity and decided to dig deeper. I found out that the noise is all pathetic and the truth is there for anyone looking for it. Written by Yossi Hecht • Full Article

I was absolutely amazed and disappointed and dismayed that you wrote a whole page in praise of S. Rubashkin in last week’s Jewish Weekly • I was absolutely amazed and disappointed and dismayed that you wrote such a lengthy letter attacking S. Rubashkin, insisting he committed a Chilul Hashem without being aware of the hard facts • Full Responsa

This morning, I woke up early and very excited. After much work and effort, we were able to arrange for a group of local Yidden to come to the Rebbe for a day in preparation for Yud-Shevat. When I boarded the plane at 7:00am, my heart was soaring. By the time I landed at 9:00am, my whole body was shaking: I had just heard the news, from my brother. Written by Rabbi Gershon Avtzon, Rosh Yeshivas TT”L Cincinnati • Full Article

In 2016, a poll showed Trump beating Hillary Clinton 66% to 22% among Orthodox Jews. This wasn’t as unusual as it sounds. In New York City, Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods light up as islands in a lefty sea. Only 34% of American Jews are certain that they believe in G-d. What do they believe in? • Full Article

Rabbi Mendel Gurkow, Shliach and founder of the Shaloh House and Chabad of the South Area, Stoughton, MA, wrote a column for the local newspaper, as part of their ‘Keeping The Faith’ section • Full Article

We are too often confronted by issues of very great urgency which demand our attention. At a moment’s notice, wars could erupt on the north or south borders. One wrong move in Syria and fighting could begin with Iran. And Arab terror has made Jewish communities vulnerable throughout many diaspora communities • Full Article

I would like to bring to the attention of the Frum community here in the United States an on-going outrage that’s being committed by the Israeli government. The Israeli Shabak (general security services) arrested for interrogation three Frum Yeshiva students all under the age of seventeen years old. Written by Yosef Hershkop • Full Article

Jewish survival has always hinged on Jewish education, and our history is replete with notorious examples of government interference – often with active assistance and even prodding from Jews. Whether those Jewish antagonists had a chip on their shoulder towards Judaism or were motivated by genuine concern for children, the results have always been disastrous. Written by Rabbi Yaakov Menken and Jeff Ballabon • Full Article

The NYS Department of Education is attempting to make undesirable changes to the Yeshiva education of our children. Some claim to have “concern” for our children to not having a good enough education and are determined to “help” us • Full Article

The Jewish community woke up this past Sunday morning to yet another case of a famous person posting something offensive about us on their social media account to their millions of fans. What is different about this case is that the offender is basketball star Lebron James. Written by Yosef Hershkop • Full Article

We are celebrating the 1st anniversary of our friend, Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin’s, miraculous release from prison. His case was the cause célèbre of the entire Frum community, and of our allies in the secular and even non-Jewish worlds. Written by Yosef Hershkop • Full Article

How is Yeshiva University different from other universities? Is it just that we have a pretty rigorous dual-curriculum, divided campuses, and salmon Thursdays? Obviously, there is an assortment of differences we can find between YU and other colleges; But one difference shines brightly and blares loudly; yet is still not given as much attention as it deserves: a lack of Chabad presence on campus • Full Article

As we approach the Kinus Hashluchim, termed by some as the Rosh Hashana of Shlichus, it is a most befitting time to make a Cheshbon Hanefesh regarding the direction Shlichus has taken most recently. We must ask ourselves, “Are we actually fulfilling the Rebbe’s vision and innermost desire regarding shlichus?” Written by Rabbi Yitzchok Katz • Full Article

It was exactly 50 years ago to this very day, the first day of Chesvan, 1968. The Lubavitcher Rebbe was giving a very special talk on Parshas Noach to a gathered crowd. In the audience was a Shaliach, who had gone to a very, very difficult place so that he could bring help to the people there. That was to be his mission • Full Article

Rabbi Dov Greenberg, Shliach of Stanford University, penned an article in the National Review, where he writes that “universities must oppose the immoral and dangerous BDS movement” • Full Article

Firstly, I want you to realize that the reason we did “split up” to the small extent we did, is not over what we believe, but because of how we would be perceived by others. The “normal” Lubavitch wasn’t created immediately after Gimmel Tammuz; it was a process of several years • Full Article

During the infamous Beilis blood-libel trial in Kiev in 1913, the prosecution cited a passage of Talmud to “prove” how Judaism is disrespectful of gentile lives: “R. Shimon bar Yochai said: The graves of Gentiles do not defile, for it is written, “And you my flock, the flock of my pastures, are man;” only you are designated ‘man’, and the gentile nations are not titles ‘man’” • Full Article

Many have asked me for my thoughts and reactions to the heart-wrenching video of a few Temimim aggressively vandalizing a “Yechi sign” in a Lubavitcher Beis HaMidrash. There is obviously a gut-reaction of disgust, nausea and – truth be told – anger. Written by Rabbi Gershon Avtzon, Rosh Yeshivas TT”L Cincinnati • Full Article

The audacity. Really, that’s probably the right word. Audacity. Let’s face it: it’s trendy to hate the Israeli rabbinate. Leading thinkers, heads of every major American Jewish organization (except Orthodox ones), act as if it’s open season. Written by Rabbi Fishel Jacobs • Full Article

As we are all settling down from the excitement and Simcha of the release of Rabbi Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin, I personally still have a question that has been gnawing at me. Written by R’ Yitzchok Basch • Full Article

By now, you’ve likely heard that Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin has freed an agunah, gotten kids into school, secured pay raises for teachers, found a cure for the common cold, and rescued a kitten from up in a tree. And you’ve probably heard the grumbling too. Stop lionizing him, it’s too much • Full Article

Though the Forward published many articles after the release of Sholom Rubashkin, some opinion writers have taken the position that the celebrations that followed Rubashkin’s release were at best inappropriate and at worst a desecration of G-d’s name • Full Article

The criminal prosecution of Sholom Rubashkin, whose 27-year prison sentence was commuted by President Trump on the 8^th day of Chanukah after Rubashkin had served 8 years and 8 days, was the most outrageous criminal prosecution I have witnessed in more than half a century of practicing law. Written by Nathan Lewin • Full Article

We are all still amazed and uplifted from the great miracle of the release of Reb Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin. Besides the great Simcha of our fellow brother being released from the barbaric hand of Sonei Yisroel, there is yet another amazing Simcha • Full Article

This year the Kinus Hashluchim coincides with Shabbos Parshas Toldos, in which we read about Eisav exchanging the Bechora (right of first-born) for a bowl of lentil soup. Perhaps the Horaah that we, as Shluchim, can learn from this week’s Parsha is to ask ourselves, “Are we selling the Rebbe’s Ratzon for a ‘Nezid Adoshim’, a paltry sum?” Written by Rabbi M. C. • Full Article